Echis carinatus multisquamatus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Viperidae |
Subfamily: | Viperinae |
Genus: | Echis |
Species: | E. carinatus |
Subspecies: | E. c. multisquamatus |
Trinomial name | |
Echis carinatus multisquamatus Cherlin, 1981 |
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Echis carinatus multisquamatus is a venomous viper subspecies[3] found in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Grows to 38-80 cm in length, but usually no more than 60 cm.[4]
Head mark always cross-shaped; lateral white line continuous undulating; narrow transverse white bands on middorsum; 34-40 midbody dorsal scale counts (highest of all subspecies); ventrals 169-199 (highest of all subspecies).[2]
From Uzbekistan, south to Iran and east to western Pakistan.[4]
The Wildlife of Pakistan website describes the range as from the Caspian Sea through Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan (Bukhara, Samarkand, Tashkent) into Tajikistan, along the Afghan border up to Hindukush, northeastern Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and eastern Iran.[2]
The type locality is listed as "Bairam-Ali, Mariskaya oblast, Turkmeniya" (Bairam-Ali, Mariskaya district, Turkmenia).[1]
Classified as a separate species, E. multisquamatus, when first described by Cherlin (1981).[1]