Infraspecies details

Accepted scientific name:

Echis pyramidum GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE 1827 (accepted name)

Synonyms:

Echis arenicola fide DAVID & INEICH 1999 (ambiguous synonym)

Echis carinatus pyramidum IONIDES & PITMAN 1965 (ambiguous synonym)

Echis khosatskii CHERLIN 1990 (fide MCDIARMID et. al. 1999) (synonym)

Echis khosatzkii CHERLIN 1990 (fide GOLAY et. al. 1993) (synonym)

Echis varia REUSS 1834 (synonym)

Echis varius borkini CHERLIN 1990 (synonym)

Echis varius darevskii CHERLIN 1990 (synonym)

Scytale pyramidum GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE 1827: 152 (synonym)

Infraspecies:

Echis pyramidum subsp. aliaborri DREWES & SACHERER 1974

Echis pyramidum subsp. leakeyi STEMMLER & SOCHUREK 1969

Echis pyramidum subsp. lucidus CHERLIN 1990

Echis pyramidum subsp. pyramidum (GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE 1827)

Common name:

Egyptian Saw-scaled Viper

Classification:

Animalia

Phylum Chordata

Class Reptilia

Order Squamata

Superfamily Xenophidia (Colubroidea = Caenophidia)

Family Viperidae

Genus Echis

Distribution:

Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Oman, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, Uganda

Additional data:

Venomous! Golay et al. (1993) synonymize E. a. arenicola with E. pyramidum. Some authors consider E. khosatzkii as valid species (U. Joger, pers. comm.) Subspecies: Echis pyramidum aliaborri DREWES 1974 Echis pyramidum leakeyi STEMMLER 1969 Echis pyramidum lucidus CHERLIN 1990 Echis pyramidum pyramidum GEOFFROY 1827

Source database:

EMBL Reptile Database, Nov 2005

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Uetz P.

Online resource:

http://srs.embl-heidelberg.de:8000/...


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