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Taxonomy of the genus Peltopelor Biodiversity of the family Viperidae

Bibliography of the genus
Peltopelor (Large-scaled Pitviper)

(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.


Peltopelor macrolepis

Aengals, R. 1995. Reptilian fauna in the plantation of Valparai, Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu. Cobra (Madras) 19: 21-23.

David, P.; Vogel, G.; Dubois, A. 2011. On the need to follow rigorously the rules of the Code for the subsequent designation of a nucleospecies (type species) for a nominal genus which lacked one: the case of the nominal genus Trimeresurus Lacepede, 1804 (Reptilia: Squamata: Viperidae). Zootaxa 2992: 1-51.

Ganesh, S.R.; Asokan, S.; Kannan, P. 2008. Record length of large scaled pit viper (Trimeresurus macrolepis) Beddome 1862, with notes on its ecological and conservational significance. Cobra (Chennai) 2(3): 17-22.

Ganesh, S.R.; Asokan, S.; Kannan, P. 2010. Patterns of resource use, overlap and partitioning among three sympatric species of south Indian pitvipers. Herpetological Bulletin 113: 14-19.

Gumprecht, A.; Ryabov, S.A. 2002. Die Gattung Trimeresurus Lacepede, 1804 - Zum Kenntnisstand der Forschung. Draco 3(4) (12): 31-44.

Gumprecht, A.; Tillack, F.; Orlov, N.L.; Captain, A.; Ryabov, S. 2004. Asian Pitvipers. GeitjeBooks, Berlin. 368 pp.

Guo, P.; Jadin, R.C.; Malhotra, A.; Li, C. 2010. An investigation of the cranial evolution of Asian pitvipers (Serpentes: Crotalinae), with comments on the phylogenetic position of Peltopelor macrolepis. Acta Zoologica (Copenhagen) 91(4): 402-407.

Laurent, R.F. 1948. Notes sur quelques reptiles appartenant a la collection du Musée royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique. II. Formes asiatiques et néoguinéennes. Bulletin Mus. Hist. Nat. Belgique (Bruxelles) 24(17): 1-12.

Malhotra, A.; Thorpe, R.S. 2004. A phylogeny of four mitochondrial gene regions suggests a revised taxonomy for Asian pitvipers (Trimeresurus and Ovophis). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 32(1): 83-100.

Seshadri, K.S. 2012. Occurrence of large-scaled pit viper Trimeresurus macrolepis Beddome, 1862 in the forest canopy of Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, southern India. Herpetology Notes 5: 201-202.

Srinivasulu, C.; Srinivasulu, B.; Deepak, V.; Shankar, G.; Das, A. 2013. Peltopelor macrolepis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T172623A1354137. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T172623A1354137.en.

Whitaker, R. 1973. Pit viper (Trimeresurus macrolepis (Beddome)) bites at a south Indian tea estate. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 70(1): 207-208.