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Taxonomy of the genus Himalayophis Biodiversity of the family Viperidae

Bibliography of the genus
Himalayophis (Himalayan Pitvipers)

(Reptilia: Serpentes: Viperidae)

Note: In order to limit redundancy, relevant literature indexed in the related bibliographies in the left column may not have been included in this page. For a comprehensive search of literature, these bibliographies should therefore also be consulted.


Himalayophis tibetanus

David, P.; Tong, H. 1997. Translations of recent descriptions of Chinese pitvipers of the Trimeresurus-complex (serpentes, viperidae), with a key to the complex in China and adjacent areas. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service 112: 1-31.

David, P.; Vogel, G.; Dubois, A. 2011. On the need to follow rigorously the rules of the Code for the subsequent designation of a nucleospecies (type species) for a nominal genus which lacked one: the case of the nominal genus Trimeresurus Lacepede, 1804 (Reptilia: Squamata: Viperidae). Zootaxa 2992: 1-51.

Gumprecht, A.; Ryabov, S.A. 2002. Die Gattung Trimeresurus Lacepede, 1804 - Zum Kenntnisstand der Forschung. Draco 3(4) (12): 31-44.

Gumprecht, A.; Tillack, F.; Orlov, N.L.; Captain, A.; Ryabov, S. 2004. Asian Pitvipers. GeitjeBooks, Berlin. 368 pp.

Huang, Z. 1982. A new species of the Crotalidae snake from Tibetan. Fudan Journal (Natural Science) 21(1): 116-118.

Hubbs, C.L. 1932. The use of the generic name Ophis for an eel, a snake and a mollusc. Copeia 1932: 26-27.

Malhotra, A.; Thorpe, R.S. 2004. A phylogeny of four mitochondrial gene regions suggests a revised taxonomy for Asian pitvipers (Trimeresurus and Ovophis). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 32(1): 83-100.

Orlov, N.L.; Helfenberger, N. 1997. New mountain species of Trimeresurus (Serpentes, Viperidae, Crotalinae) of the "green" pit vipers group from the Himalayas. Russian Journal of Herpetology 4(2): 195-197, 206-207.

Rao, D.Q.; Zhao, E.M. 2004. Bungarus bungaroides, a record new to China (Xizang AR) with a note on Trimeresurus tibetanus. Sichuan Journal of Zoology 23(3): 213-214.

Richman, N.; Böhm, M. 2010. Himalayophis tibetanus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T178471A7553595. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T178471A7553595.en.

Tillack, F.; Lorenz, M.; Orlov, N.L.; Helfenberger, N.; Shah, K.B.; Eckert, W. 2003. Shah's Grubenotter Trimeresurus karanshahi Orlov & Helfenberger, 1997 - ein Juniorsynonym von Trimeresurus tibetanus Huang, 1982 (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae), mit Angaben zur Verbreitung, Biologie und der Vorstellung neuer Farbvarianten aus Zentral-Nepal. Sauria (Berlin) 25(2): 3-15.