Home - Taxonomy - Geography - Biodiversity - Literature - Purchase RepFocus Recent updates Related bibliographies: Reptiles Snakes Viperidae Asia Europe Middle East Taxonomy of the genus Gloydius Biodiversity of the family Viperidae Bibliography of the genus Gloydius (Mamushis) (Reptilia: Serpentes: Viperidae) Note: In order to limit redundancy, relevant literature indexed in the related bibliographies in the left column may not have been included in this page. For a comprehensive search of literature, these bibliographies should therefore also be consulted. Gloydius in general Chen, Y.; Wu, X.; Zhao, E. 1984. Classification of Agkistrodon species in China. Toxicon 22(1): 53-61. Chernov, S. 1934. On the systematics and distribution of Agkistrodon (Ophidia) in the Soviet Union. C. R. Acad. Sci. Leningrad 1(6): 350-356. Ernst, C.H. 1982. A study of the fangs of snakes belonging to the Agkistrodon-complex. Journal of Herpetology 16(1): 72-80. Gloyd, H.K. 1972. The Korean snakes of the genus Agkistrodon (Crotalidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 85(49): 557-578. Gumprecht, A.; Tillack, F.; Orlov, N.L.; Captain, A.; Ryabov, S. 2004. Asian Pitvipers. GeitjeBooks, Berlin. 368 pp. Guo, P. & al. 1998. Taxonomic studies on Chinese species of the genus Gloydius (Viperidae: Crotalinae). (In Chinese). Sichuan Journal of Zoology 17(4): 166-169. Guo, P.; Zhang, F. 2002. [Phylogenetic and biogeographic studies on Deinagkistrodon and Gloydius in China]. (In Chinese). Sichuan Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexueban) 39(2) (Sum 146): 378-381. Guo, P.; Zhang, F.J.; Chen, Y.Y. 1999. Comparative studies on the skull morphology of Chinese species of Agkistrodon and Deinagkistrodon, with discussion on their classification (Serpentes: Crotalinae). (In Chinese, English summary). Zoological Research 20(6): 415-420. Guo, P.; Zhang, F.J.; Chen, Y.Y. 1999. The hemipenes of Chinese species of Deinagkistrodon and Gloydius (Serpentes: Crotalinae). Asiatic Herpetological Research 8: 38-42. Knight, A.; Densmore, L.D.; Rael, E.D. 1992. Molecular systematics of the Agkistrodon complex. pp. 49-70. In: Campbell, J.A. & Brodie, E.D. (eds.). Biology of the pitvipers. Selva, Tyler, Texas. 467 pp. Koba, K. 1938. Some notes on Agkistrodon halys (Pallas) from Syoryuzan Island, Kwangtung, South Manchuria. I. Zool. Mag. Tokyo 50: 245-264. Korotkov, Y.M. 1981. Contribution to the systematics of pit vipers of the genus Agkistrodon of the Soviet Union. pp. 51-54. In: Borkin, L.Y. (ed.). Herpetological investigations in Siberia and the Far East. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Leningrad. 147 pp. Kudryavtsev, S.V.; Bozhansky, A.T. 1988. A case of hybridization between two Agkistrodon snake in the Moscow Zoo terrarium. Vestnik Zoologii 1988(2): 69-71. Orlov, N.L.; Barabanov, A.V. 1999. Analysis of nomenclature, classification, and distribution of the Agkistrodon halys - Agkistrodon intermedius complexes: a critical review. Russian Journal of Herpetology 6(3): 167-192. Orlov, N.L.; Barabanov, A.V. 2000. About type localities for some species of the genus Gloydius Hoge et Romano-Hoge, 1981 (Crotalinae: Viperidae: Serpentes). Russian Journal of Herpetology 7(2): 159-160. Paik, N.K.; Park, C.S.; Jung, E.K.; Lee, H.Y.; Toriba, M. 1998. mtDNA analysis of the genus Agkistrodon species in eastern Asia. Russian Journal of Herpetology 5(2): 97-102. Rastegar-Pouyani, E.; Oraie, H.; Khosravani, A.; Akbari, A. 2018. Phylogenetic position of Iranian pitvipers (Viperidae, Crotalinae, Gloydius) inferred from mitochondrial cytochrome b sequences. Tropical Zoology 31(2): 55-67. Rendahl, H. 1933. Die Unterarten des Ancistrodon halys Pall., nebst einigen Bemerkungen zur Herpetologie Zentralasiens. Arkiv för Zoologi (Stockholm) 25 A(8): 1-33. Sasaki, K.; Shirakura, F.; Sasaki, Y. 2007. [Mamushi (Gloydius spp.) from Korea and Samam, Hokkaido, Japan: ecological observations in outdoor enclosures]. (In Japanese). Bulletin of the Herpetological Society of Japan 2007(2): 132-135. Shi, J.S.; Yang, D.W.; Zhang, W.Y.; Qi, S.; Li, P.P.; Ding, L. 2016. [Distribution and infraspecies taxonomy of Gloydius halys-Gloydius intermedius complex in China (Serpentes: Crotalinae)]. (In Chinese). Chinese Journal of Zoology 51(5): 777-798. Wu, L. 1977. On the infraspecific categories of Agkistrodon halys in China. Acta Zoologica Sinica 23(3): 318-323. Xu, Y.; Liu, Q.; Myers, E.A.; Wang, L.; Huang, S.; He, Y.; Peng, P.; Guo, P. 2012. Molecular phylogeny of the genus Gloydius (Serpentes: Crotalinae). Asian Herpetological Research 3(2): 127-132. Zhao, E.M. 2004. [Suggestion of the English names for Gloydius species and Deinagkistrodon acutus]. (In Chinese, English summary). Sichuan Journal of Zoology 23(3): 211-212. Zhao, E.M.; Jiang, Y.M.; Huang, Q.Y. 1979. On infraspecific categories of Pallas' pit viper in China. Acta Herpetologica Sinica 1(2): 2-11. Zhou, J.L.; Zhang, Y.P.; Huang, M.H.; Chen, Y.J.; Chen, X.Q.; Yao, G.D. 2001. [Phylogenetic relationships among Crotalinae based on mitochondrial cytochrome B gene sequence variations]. (In Chinese, English summary). Acta Zoologica Sinica 47(4): 361-366. Gloydius angusticeps Shi, J.; Yang, D.; Zhang, W.; Peng, L.; Orlov, N.L.; Jiang, F.; Ding, L.; Hou, M.; Huang, X.; Huang, S.; Li, P. 2018. A new species of the Gloydius strauchi complex (Crotalinae: Viperidae: Serpentes) from Qinghai, Sichuan, and Gansu, China. Russian Journal of Herpetology 25(2): 126-138. Gloydius blomhoffii Barr, A.D.; Wieburg, S.A.; Kardong, K.V. 1988. The predatory strike behavior of the mamushi, Agkistrodon blomhoffii blomhoffii, and the Malay pit viper, Calloselasma rhodostoma. Japanese Journal of Herpetology 12(4): 135-138. Burger, W.L. 1974. Please use one 'i' to end the name Agkistrodon blomhoffi. The Snake 6(1): 54. Chernikin, I.A. 1981. [On the protection of reptiles in northern Sikhote-Alin]. pp. 125. 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