Vipera barani Böhme & Joger 1984
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Rediscovered
IUCN RedList status: Near Threatened
Distribution
Turkey
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Böhme, W. and Joger, U. 1984. Eine neue Art des Vipera berus-Komplexes aus der Turkei. Amphibia-Reptilia: 265-271.
Other references:
Avci, A., Üzüm, N., Olgun, K. (2004): A new record of Vipera barani Böhme & Joger, 1983 (Reptilia, Viperidae) from northeastern Anatolia, Turkey. Russian Journal of Herpetology, Moscow 11(1): 77-79.
Baran, I. and Atatür, M.K. 1998. Turkish herpetofauna (amphibians and reptiles). Republic of Turkey Ministry of Environment, Ankara.
Baran, I., Joger, U., Kutrup, B., Türkozan, O. (2001): On new specimens of Vipera barani Böhme & Joger, 1983, from northeastern Anatolia, and implications for the validity of Vipera pontica Billing, Nilson & Sattler, 1990 (Reptilia, Viperidae). Zoology in the Middle East 23: 47-53.
Baran, I., Kumlutas, Y., Ilgaz, C., Iret, F. (2005): Geographical distributions and taxonomical states of Telescopus fallax (Fleischman, 1831) and Vipera barani Böhme & Joger, 1983. Turkish Journal of Zoology 29: 217–224.
Varol Tok, Ishmail Ugurtas, Murat Sevinç, Wolfgang Böhme, Pierre-André Crochet, Ulrich Joger, Yakup Kaska, Yusuf Kumlutaş, Uğur Kaya, Aziz Avci, Nazan Üzüm, Can Yeniyurt, Ferdi Akarsu. 2009. Vipera barani. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T164774A5925027. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T164774A5925027.en. Downloaded on 28 December 2015.
Franzen, M. and Heckes, U. 2000. Vipera barani Böhme & Joger, 1983 from the eastern Pontus mountains, Turkey: differential characters, distribution, habitats (Reptilia, Serpentes, Viperidae). Spixiana: 61-70.
Göçmen, Bayram, Mebert, Konrad and Karış, Mert. (2015). New distributional data on Vipera (berus) barani from Western and Northeastern Anatolia. Herpetology Notes 8: 609-615.
Gül, S. (2015). Potential distribution modeling and morphology of Pelias barani (Böhme and Joger, 1983) in Turkey. Asian Herpetological Research 6(3): 206-212.
Joger, U. 1984. The venomous snakes of the Near and Middle East. Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients, A 12. Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag., Wiesbaden.
Joger, U., Lenk, P., Baran, I., Böhme, W., Ziegler, T., Heidrich, P., Wink, M. (1997): The phylogenetic position of Vipera barani and V. nikolskii within the Vipera berus complex. In: Böhme, W., Bischoff, W., Ziegler, T., Eds., Herpetologica Bonnensis: 185–194, Bonn.
Kumlutaş, Y., Sözen, M., Ilgaz, Ç. (2013): New record of the rare Vipera barani Böhme & Joger, 1983. Herpetozoa 25(3/4): 183–188.
Kutrup, B. 2003. The identification of new specimens of Vipera from Trabzon, Turkey with affinities to Vipera barani and V. pontica. Herpetological Review 43(1): 28-31.
McDiarmid, R.W., Campbell, J.A. and Touré, T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. Herpetologists' League.
Nilson, G., Andrén, C., and Flärdh, B. 1988. Die Vipern der Türkei. Salamandra: 215-247.
Sindaco, R., Venchi, A., Carpaneto, G.M. and Bologna, M.A. 2000. The reptiles of Anatolia: a checklist and zoogeographical analysis. Biogeographia 21: 441-554.