A ‘little dragon’ from Kunming City: a new green pit viper from Yunnan Province, China (Squamata, Viperidae, Trimeresurus)

Xu, Yuhao; Deng, Jundong; Zhang, Tierui; Nguyen, Tan; Weng, Shiyang; Poyarkov, Nikolay; Vogel, Gernot; Sun, Fanyue; Liao, Chencan; Peng, Lifang

doi:10.3897/zse.101.175879

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Zoosystematics and evolution

A ‘little dragon’ from Kunming City: a new green pit viper from Yunnan Province, China (Squamata, Viperidae, Trimeresurus)

Xu, Yuhao
Deng, Jundong
Zhang, Tierui
Nguyen, Tan
Weng, Shiyang
Poyarkov, Nikolay
Vogel, Gernot
Sun, Fanyue
Liao, Chencan
Peng, Lifang

Sofia Pensoft

2025-11-18

https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.101.175879

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