Echis carinatus sochureki

Taxobox
name = "Echis carinatus sochureki"

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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Serpentes
familia = Viperidae
subfamilia = Viperinae
genus = "Echis"
species = "E. carinatus"
subspecies = "E. c. sochureki"
trinomial = "Echis carinatus sochureki"
trinomial_authority = Stemmler, 1969
synonyms = * "Echis carinatus sochureki" - Stemmler, 1969
* "Echis sochureki sochureki" - Cherlin, 1983
* "Echis" [("Turanechis")] "sochureki" - Cherlin, 1990
* "Echis" [("Turanechis")] "sochureki sochureki" - Cherlin, 1990
* "Echis carinata sockureki" - Das, 1996McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).] :"Common names: Sochurek's saw-scaled viper, eastern saw-scaled viper. [http://www.wildlifeofpakistan.com/ReptilesofPakistan/sawscaledviper.htm Saw-scaled Viper, ...] at [http://www.wildlifeofpakistan.com/ Wildlife of Pakistan] , Accessed 3 August 2006.] ""Echis carinatus sochureki" is a venomous viper subspeciesITIS|ID=635287|taxon="Echis carinatus sochureki"|year=2006|date=3 August] found in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and parts of the Arabian Peninsula.

Description

The head is covered with small scales, except for 3-4 enlarged supraoculars. Midbody there are 29-33 rows of dorsal scales. The keels of the middorsal rows are flat.

The color pattern consists of a tan, grayish or brown ground color with a central series of 30 whitish (never yellowish) blotches with dark brown edges. The flanks are marked with a row of wide arcs with distinct dark spots. The belly is whitish, with dark gray flecks. The head has a light arrow mark directed towards the snout. A light loreal stripe extends towards the angle of mouth.

Geographic range

Northern India, Pakistan, southern Afghanistan, south and central Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Oman.Mallow D, Ludwig D, Nilson G. 2003. True Vipers: Natural History and Toxinology of Old World Vipers. Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida. 359 pp. ISBN 0-89464-877-2.]

The [http://www.wildlifeofpakistan.com/ Wildlife of Pakistan] website gives the range as northern India, Pakistan (except the high mountains in north), southern Afghanistan, central Iran to the coast of the Iranian Gulf and Khuzestan.

The type locality is "West Pakistan, Ban Kushdil Khan bei Pishin" (Pishin, West Pakistan).

Reproduction

This subspecies is oviparous.

ee also

* List of viperine species and subspecies
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* Snakebite

References

External links

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