Dwarf vipers on a small island: body size, diet and fecundity correlates

L Tomović, M Anđelković, A Golubović… - Biological Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Insular populations offer excellent opportunities to study the factors that influence
phenotypes. We observed island dwarfism in a widespread snake, the nose-horned viper …

Discovery of a new Hepatozoon species namely Hepatozoon viperoi sp. nov. in nose-horned vipers in Türkiye

O Ceylan, LP Úngari, G Sönmez, C Gul, C Ceylan… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Although Hepatozoon spp. remains the most prevalent intracellular protozoa infecting
snakes, it was reported only in a few snake species of the Colubridae family in Türkiye …