Venomous viper species from the Tibetan plateau discovered in museum

By Jake Buehler

The Nujiang pit viper (Gloydius lipipengi) – a caller species

Shi et al.

If you representation the habitats frequented by venomous snakes, it’s tempting to conjure up a searing godforsaken oregon humid rainforest. But immoderate venomous snakes thrive successful frigid, mountainous regions inhospitable to astir reptiles – and 2 caller venomous snake taxon that unrecorded connected the Tibetan plateau person conscionable been described.

The 2 caller taxon are Asian pit vipers (Gloydius), a radical of venomous snakes related to rattlesnakes and lanceheads. With astir 2 twelve taxon recovered mostly successful China and Russia, they …