Peng GUO,Qin LIU,Jiatang LI,et al.Catalogue of the Type Specimens of Amphibians and Reptiles in the Herpetological Museum of the Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences: V. Viperidae (Reptilia, Serpentes)[J].Asian Herpetological Research(AHR),2016,7(1):59-63.[doi:10.16373/j.cnki.ahr.150017]

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Catalogue of the Type Specimens of Amphibians and Reptiles in the Herpetological Museum of the Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences: V. Viperidae (Reptilia, Serpentes)

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2016 VoI.7 No.1

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2016-03-25

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Catalogue of the Type Specimens of Amphibians and Reptiles in the Herpetological Museum of the Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences: V. Viperidae (Reptilia, Serpentes)

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Peng GUO^1*;  Qin LIU¹;  Jiatang LI²;  Yan CAO² and Yuezhao WANG²

¹ College of Life Science and Food Engineering, Yibin University, Yibin 644007, China
² Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan, China

Keywords:

snake;  type specimen;  Viperidae;  China;  taxonomy

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10.16373/j.cnki.ahr.150017

Abstract:

n 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 of snakes represent seven species in four genera. As a series of reports on the type specimens of Amphibians and Reptilies deposited in the Herpetological Museum of CIB, this paper focuses on the venomous snake family Viperidae in the collections at this Museum.

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