new data on montivipera kuhrangica (squamata: serpentes: viperidae)

The genus montivipera comprised of two recognized clades in light of molecular as well asmorphological data (stümpel & joger, 2009; rastegar-pouyani et al., 2014; stümpel et al., 2016;behrooz et al., 2018). the first, the ‘xanthina-complex’, are endemic to asia minor, syria andlebanon. the second clade, the ‘raddei-complex’, comprises populations over a wide range fromnorth-western and western iran to the southern half of armenia, south of azerbaijan, nakhchivanand eastern turkey. (nilson & andrén, 1986; behrooz et al., 2018).