. Bonner zoologische Monographien. Zoology. 61 kurdistanica. (Joger also mentioned a second Pseudocerastes, deposited in BM, from the same area, at "Nohud Shak, NW of Diza", in Turkey. We have examined that specimen, labeled "Nohud Shak, NW of Diza, Persia", and which clearly was found at an Iranian locality with that name). Habitat: No information is available Reproduction: One female had 4 and a second female 9 large ova in the oviducts. Vipera wagneri Nilson & Andren, 1984 Vipera aspis ocellata Berthold, 1850 (non Vipera ocellata Sonnini & Latreille, 1802) Vipera
. Bonner zoologische Monographien. Zoology. 61 kurdistanica. (Joger also mentioned a second Pseudocerastes, deposited in BM, from the same area, at "Nohud Shak, NW of Diza", in Turkey. We have examined that specimen, labeled "Nohud Shak, NW of Diza, Persia", and which clearly was found at an Iranian locality with that name). Habitat: No information is available Reproduction: One female had 4 and a second female 9 large ova in the oviducts. Vipera wagneri Nilson & Andren, 1984 Vipera aspis ocellata Berthold, 1850 (non Vipera ocellata Sonnini & Latreille, 1802) Vipera xanthina Strauch, 1869 (part.) Vipera raddei Nikolski, 1905 (part.) Coluber raddei Nikolski, 1916 (part.) Type locality: The holotype was collected by Moritz Wagner 1846 in Azarbaidjan, Iran. The collecting locality for the single known specimen was originally given as "Urmia" and "die Armenisch-Persische Grenze". The holotype (ZFMK 23495) is in the Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, F. R. Germany. Definition and diagnosis: A species of Vipera within the Vipera xanthina species-group, thus lacking a complete circumocular ring and with the supraocular plates in broad contact with eye. Supraoculars elongate and neither raised nor with angular outer border. A single canthal scale on each side of head and two apicals in contact with rostral. A well developed rhomboid (ocellated) dark dorsal pattern along the back on a lighter ground colour. The single female differs from female V. xanthina in having more intercanthals, more first circumoculars, fewer. Fig. 26: Vipera wagneri from northwestern Iran (ZFMK 23495).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bonn, Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig
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