Macrovipera

Familia: Viperidae
Subfamilia: Viperinae
Genus: Macrovipera
Species (3): M. lebetina – M. razii – M. schweizeri

Macrovipera Reuss, 1927: 126

• Type species: Coluber lebetinus Linnaeus, 1758, by original designation.

• Reuss, T. 1927. Sechs europäische Giftschlangengattungen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 72: 124–129.

• Lenk, P., Kalyabina, S., Wink, M. & Joger, U. 2001. Evolutionary relationships among the true vipers (Viperinae) inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 19(1): 94–104. DOI: 10.1006/mpev.2001.0912 Reference page. 
• Garrigues, T., Dauga, C., Ferquel, E., Choumet, V. & Failloux, A.–B. 2005. Molecular phylogeny of Vipera Laurenti, 1768 and the related genera Macrovipera (Reuss, 1927) and Daboia (Gray, 1842), with comments about neurotoxic Vipera aspis aspis populations. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 35(1): 35–47. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2004.11.004 Reference page. 
• Oraie, H., Rastegar-Pouyani, E., Khosravani, A., Moradi, N., Akbari, A., Sehhatisabet, M.E., Shafiei, S., Stümpel, N. & Joger, U. 2018. Molecular and morphological analyses have revealed a new species of blunt-nosed viper of the genus Macrovipera in Iran. Salamandra 54(4): 233–248. PDF Reference page. 

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Macrovipera . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 6 May 2022.

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