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Gloydius shedaoensis (Shedao island pitviper)

Synonyms: Agkistrodon shedaoensis

Wikipedia Abstract

Gloydius shedaoensis is a venomous pitviper species found only on Shedao Island in China. Although very small, this island is home to an extraordinarily large population of these snakes. No subspecies are currently recognized.
View Wikipedia Record: Gloydius shedaoensis

Infraspecies

Gloydius shedaoensis qianshanensis
Gloydius shedaoensis shedaoensis

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Gloydius shedaoensis

Attributes

Maximum Longevity [1]  13 years

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Central China loess plateau mixed forests China Palearctic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Northeast China Plain deciduous forests China Palearctic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0