Pingbian Mountain Pitviper
Ovophis anitae
Ovophis anitae, or the Pingbian mountain pitviper, is a species of mountain pit viper endemic to China and northern Vietnam. Like all pit vipers, it is venomous. Originally, O. anitae was named Ovophis malhotrae by Zeng et al. (2023), but was renamed as that name was unavailable. Both names are in honour of Dr. Anita Malhotra of Bangor University for her molecular biology work on Asian pitvipers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1639388.