Captive Management and Reproductive Biology of Latifi's Viper (Montivipera latifii) (Squamata: Viperidae) at Razi Institute and Tehran University in Iran

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作   者：

NAJMEH KIAN;  MOHAMMAD KABOLI;  MAHMOUD KARAMI;  AFSHIN ALIZADEH;  SHOHREH TEYMURZADEH;  NIMA KHALILBEIGI;  JAMES B. MURPHY;  ELHAM NOURANI; 

作者机构：

University of Tehran;  Paulinerweg7;  Natural Resources Faculty;  Washington;  Austria;  Tehran University;  Environmental Sciences;  I. R. Iran;  Razi Institute;  Department of Environment;  Smithsonian National Zoological Park;  Karaj;  Department of Herpetology;  DC USA;  Iran;  Hesarak;  Tehran;  8044 Graz;  Faculty of Natural Resources; 

关键词：

Biology;  Management;  Captive; 

期刊名称：

Herpetological review

i s s n：

0018-084X

年卷期：

2011 年 42 卷 4 期

页   码：

535-539

页   码：

摘   要：

Latifi's Viper or Lar Mountain Viper (Montivipera latifii) is asmall, mountain-dwelling venomous snake occurring in Iran inTehran Province (lar Damavand, Ab-Ask, Firuzkuh, Gajere, Gach-sar and Afjeh) (Rastegar-pouyani et al. 2008). This species is foundonly in Iran and has been considered at risk since 1979, whenthere was concern about the possible extinction of this viper (An-den and Nilson 1979). Construction of an enormous earthen damcalled Lar Dam inundated the habitat in the late 1970s and it ap-peared that the snake was forever lost. In 2000 an isolated popu-lation was found in the upper Lar Valley in the Elburz Mountains.In 1983 the snake was listed as Endangered and its future has notimproved (Groombridge 2010; Red List of IUCN 2010).