Agkistrodon halys boehmei Nilson, A, 2016

Wagner, Philipp, Bauer, Aaron M., Leviton, Alan E., Wilms, Thomas M. & Böhme, Wolfgang, 2016, A Checklist of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Afghanistan *, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 63 (13), pp. 457-565 : 517

Gloydius halys boehmei (Nilson, 1983:479, fig. 1)

1983 Agkistrodon halys boehmei Nilson, A new subspecies of the Asiatic pit viper Agkistrodon halys Pallas, 1776 ( Serpentes , Viperidae ) from Afghanistan. Bonner zoologische Beiträge 34(4):469–476.

HOLOTYPE.— ZFMK 8648 from “ Andarab valley , province of Baghlan, at 2500 m altitude, east Afghanistan ”. The paratype is ZFMK 8649 (= ZMK 2637 ), with the same locality as the holotype.

LOCALITIES.— Andarab Valley [Baghlan Prov., 2500 m] ( ZFMK 8648–49 ) [see pl. 14, fig. 4 for distribution] .

REMARKS.— Leviton and Anderson (1970) mentioned this species (as Agkistrodon halys ) from a single record of the Universitetets Zoologiske Museum, Copenhagen from the Sauzak Pass near Herat. This specimen was later identified by Nilson (1983) as “ Gloydius intermedius caucasicus ” (see below). However, the same author also described a subspecies of Gloydius halys from Afghanistan and, therefore, this species is indeed part of the Afghan herpetofauna. The paratype specimen ZFMK 8649 was later (1972) donated to the Zoological Museum in Kabul (ZMK) and is now lost.