funded by the Biodiversity Investiga tion, Observation and Assessment Program of Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China (2019–2023);the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, China (BK20160103)。
The pit vipers of the genus Trimeresurus Lacépède, 1804 is one of the largest groups of Asian snakes, distributed from India to China and Indonesia. Recent surveys in Jiangcheng and Simao, Yunnan Province, China res...
financially supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC31460558)
Species from the Trimeresurus popeiorum complex(Subgenus: Popeia) is a very complex group. T. popeiorum is the only Popeia species known from China. During the past two years, five adult Popeia specimens(4 males, 1 fe...
The distribution pattern of reptiles in mountainous regions is generally related to altitude. The distribution of viperine species can be limited by elevation. Short-tailed viper snakes (Gloydius saxatilis) of South...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC31372152);the Scientific Research Fund of Sichuan Provincial Education Department(13TD0027) to PG
In China, there are about 37 species of vipers belonging to 12 genera in the family Viperidae. In the Herpetological Museum of the Chengdu Institute of Biology(CIB), Chinese Academy of Sciences, the type specimens o...
Discontinuous polyacrylamide gel electrophoreses for lactate dehydrogenase (Ldh) and alfa-esterase (α-Est) isoenzymes were conducted for biochemical differentiation between Echis pyramidum and Eryx colubrinus inhabit...
supported by grants from the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program;2007CB411600);the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MOST; Grant 2011FY120200);the Capability Support Project for Nature Reserve (Finance-Agri [2008] 297);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31090250, 31071946);the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KSCX2-YW-Z-0807, KSCX2-EW-Z-2);the Bureau of Science and Technology of Yunnan, China
A new species of the genus Protobothrops Hoge & Romano-Hoge, 1983, was described from Jilong County, southern Tibet, China, and Chungthang, northern Sikkim, India. It differs from congeners by the following character...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC 30670236, NSFC 30970334, NSFC 31071892);the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University, the Ministry of Education of China (NCET-08-0908)
Protobothrops mangshanensis(Zhao,1990) was first described based on the specimens from Mt. Mang,Yizhang,Hunan,China(Zhao and Chen,1990). However,due to poor preservation,the holotype of P. mangshanensis is considerabl...
funded by the Foundation for Young and Key Teachers;and the Talent Cultivation Project of Anhui University(02203104/04)
During a biological survey in July 2011, a pit viper was collected from the Yaoluoping Nature Reserve in the Dabie Mountains, Anhui, China. The pit viper’s the total length measured 836 mm with a dorsal ground color ...
The effect of local habitat conditions on organisms, including environmentally-induced morphological changes, constitutes an important aspect of macroecology and evolution. The degree of geographic intraspecific varia...