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Issue: Vol. 38 No. 1: 29 Oct. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-10-29
DOI: 10.11646/bionomina.38.1.5
Page range: 55-61
Abstract views: 175
PDF downloaded: 1

The status of the nomen "Ovophis malhotrae" (Squamata, Serpentes, Viperidae, Crotalinae)

Reptiles & Amphibiens, Institut de Systématique, Évolution et Biodiversité (ISYEB), CP 30, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 57 rue Cuvier, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
Association RACINE, 5 allée des Cygnes, 35750 Saint-Maugan, France
Society for Southeast Asian Herpetology, Im Sand 3, D-69115 Heidelberg, Germany
Squamata Serpentes Viperidae Crotalinae

Abstract

We show that the new nomen "Ovophis malhotrae" proposed by Zeng et al. (2023a‒b) is nomenclaturally unavailable. As we consider the species for which it was coined taxonomically valid, we propose for it a new nomen, satisfying the criteria of publication of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. The original description of this species is slightly expanded.

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