Gloydius

Familia: Viperidae
Subfamilia: Crotalinae
Genus: Gloydius
Species (25): G. angusticeps – G. blomhoffii – G. brevicaudus – G. caraganus – G. caucasicus – G. chambensis – G. changdaoensis – G. cognatus – G. halys – G. himalayanus – G. huangi – G. intermedius – G. lateralis – G. lipipengi – G. liupanensis – G. monticola – G. qinlingensis – G. rickmersi – G. rubromaculatus – G. shedaoensis – G. stejnegeri – G. strauchi – G. swild – G. tsushimaensis – G. ussuriensis

Gloydius Hoge & Romano-Hoge, 1981: 194 [nomen substitutum]

• Type species: Trigonocephalus halys Boie, 1827 [= Coluber halys Pallas, 1776], by original designation.

• Halys Gray, 1849: 14 [as subgenus of Trigonocephalus, preoccupied by Halys Fabricius, 1803]
  • Type species: Trigonocephalus halys Boie, 1827 [= Coluber halys Pallas, 1776], by subsequent designation.

• Gray, J.E. 1849. Catalogue of the specimens of snakes in the collection of the British Museum. Edward Newman: London. i–xv + 1–125. BHL Reference page. 
• Hoge, A.R. & Romano-Hoge, S.A.R.W.L. [1978–1979] 1981. Poisonous snakes of the world. Part I. Check list of the pit vipers, Viperoidea, Viperidae, Crotalinae. Memórias do Instituto Butantan 42/43: 179–309.

• Xu, Y., Liu, Q., Myers, E.A., Wang, L., Huang, S., He, Y., Peng, P.-H. & Guo, P. 2012. Molecular Phylogeny of the Genus Gloydius (Serpentes: Crotalinae). Asian Herpetological Research 3(2): 127–132. DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1245.2012.00127 Reference page. 
• Wagner, P., Tiutenko, A., Mazepa, G., Borkin, L.J. & Simonov, E. 2016. Alai! Alai! – a new species of the Gloydius halys (Pallas, 1776) complex (Viperidae, Crotalinae), including a brief review of the complex. Amphibia-Reptilia 37(1): 15–31. DOI: 10.1163/15685381-00003026 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Shi, J.-S., Yang, D.-W., Zhang, W.-Y., Qi, S., Li, P.-P. & Ding, L. 2016. Distribution and Infraspecies Taxonomy of Gloydius halys-Gloydius intermedius Complex in China (Serpentes: Crotalinae) (In Chinese with English summary). Chinese Journal of Zoology 51(5): 777–798. DOI: 10.13859/j.cjz.201605008 Reference page. 
• Shi, J.-S., Wang, G., Chen, X., Fang, Y., Ding, L., Huang, S., Hou, M., Liu, J. & Li, P. 2017. A New Moth-preying Alpine Pit Viper Species from Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (Viperidae, Crotalinae). Amphibia-Reptilia 38(4): 517–532. DOI: 10.1163/15685381-00003134 Reference page. 
• Shi, J.-S., Yang, D., Zhang, W.-Y., Peng, L., Orlov, N.L., Jiang, F., Ding, L., Hou, M., Huang, X., Huang, S. & Li, P. 2018. A New Species of the Gloydius strauchi Complex (Crotalinae: Viperidae: Serpentes) from Qinghai, Sichuan, and Gansu, China. Russian Journal of Herpetology 25(2): 126–138. DOI: 10.30906/1026-2296-2018-25-2-126-138 Reference page. 
• Shi, J.-S., Liu, J.-C., Giri, R., Owens, J.B., Santra, V., Kuttalam, S., Selvan, M., Guo, K.-J. & Malhotra, A. 2021. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the genus Gloydius (Squamata, Viperidae, Crotalinae), with description of two new alpine species from Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China. ZooKeys 1061: 87–108. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1061.70420 Reference page. 
• Wang, K., Ren, J.-L., Dong, W.-J., Jiang, K., Shi, J.-S., Siler, C.D. & Che, J. 2019. A New Species of Plateau Pit Viper (Reptilia: Serpentes: Gloydius) from the Upper Lancang (= Mekong) Valley in the Hengduan Mountain Region, Tibet, China. Journal of Herpetology 53(1): 224–236. DOI: 10.1670/18-126 Reference page. 
• Zhang, M-H., Shi, S-C., Li, C., Yan, P., Wang, P., Ding, L., Du, J., Plenković-Moraj, A., Jiang, J-P. & Shi, J-S. 2022. Exploring cryptic biodiversity in a world heritage site: a new pitviper (Squamata, Viperidae, Crotalinae) from Jiuzhaigou, Aba, Sichuan, China. Zookeys 1114: 59–76. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1114.79709 Reference page. 
• Kuttalam, S., Santra, V., Owens, J.B., Selvan, M., Mukherjee, N., Graham, S., Togridou, A., Bharti, O.K., Shi, J.-S., Shanker, K. & Malhotra, A. 2022. Phylogenetic and morphological analysis of Gloydius himalayanus (Serpentes, Viperidae, Crotalinae), with the description of a new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 852(1): 1–30. DOI: 0.5852/ejt.2022.852.2003 Reference page. 

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2025. Gloydius . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 23 September 2024.

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