The secretive behavior and life history of snakes makes studying their biology, distribution,
and the epidemiology of venomous snakebite challenging. One of the most useful, most …

Snakebite is a relatively common health condition in Iran with a diverse snake fauna,
especially in tropical southern and mountainous western areas of the country with a plethora …

The designation of taxonomic units has important implications for the understanding and
conservation of biodiversity. Eurasian vipers are a monophyletic group of viperid snakes …

Snake venom variations are a crucial factor to understand the consequences of snakebite
envenoming worldwide, and therefore it is important to know about toxin composition …

Colouration may endorse thermoregulatory and antipredatory functions in snakes. The
thermal melanism hypothesis predicts that dark-coloured individuals are ecologically …

Background The orogeny of the eastern Mediterranean region has substantially affected
ecological speciation patterns, particularly of mountain-dwelling species. Mountain vipers of …

Latifi's viper (Montivipera latifii), also known as Lar Valley or Damavandi viper, is endemic to
Iran. It has rarely been recorded, as it occurs in a highly-protected national park. In this first …

Ecological niche modeling predicts the potential distribution areas of species and
contributes to measuring the niche differentiation among taxa. Montivipera albizona and M …

The Bolkar Mountain Viper, Montivipera bulgardaghica (Nilson & Andren, 1985), is a
mountain viper found in the eastern Mediterranean region. In this study, we present data on …

Understanding how phenotypic variation across species is shaped by the combination of
shared evolutionary history and environmental factors is key to elucidating the processes …