Vipera orlovi is a species of venomous snake in the subfamily Viperinae of the family Viperidae. The species is endemic to Russia.
Taxonomy Vipera orlovi was described as a species new to science by Boris S. Tuniyev and Sergei V. Ostrovskikh in 2001.Vipera orlovi TUNIYEV & OSTROVSKIKH, 2001 at The Reptile Database.
Etymology The specific name, orlovi, is in honor of Russian herpetologist Nikolai Liutsianovich Orlov (born 1952).Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Vipera orlovi, p. 196).
Geographic range Vipera orlovi is found in the Caucasus area of Russia.
Habitat The preferred habitats of Vipera orlovi are forest, grassland, and shrubland at altitudes of .
Reproduction Vipera orlovi is ovoviviparous.
References
Further reading
Phelps, T. (2010). Old World Vipers: A natural history of the Azemiopinae and Viperinae. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Edition Chimaira. 558 pp. . Schweiger, M. (2009). "Die Giftschlangen Europas: Eine Übersicht der Arten und Bemerkungen zu einzelnen Taxa ". Reptilia (Münster) 14 (76): 14–25. (Vipera dinniki orlovi, new combination). (in German). Tuniyev, B.S., Ostrovskikh, S.V. (2001). "Two new species of vipers of kaznakovi complex (Ophidia, Viperidae) from western Caucasus". Russian Journal of Herpetology 8 (2): 117–126. (Vipera orlovi, new species).
External links Vipera orlovi at viperacaucasica.googlepages.com.