Extreme cases of colour pattern and size in Levantine Viper, Macrovipera lebetina (L., 1758) from the West of Euphrates Basin (Southern Anatolia, Turkey)

Ahmet Mermer, Bayram Göçmen, Kerim Çiçek
BIHAREAN BIOLOGIST   unpublished
A male Macrovipera lebetina showing unusually prominent orange blotches , collected from Anamur (Mersin, Turkey) on November 2nd 2010, has been asigned to M. l. euphratica due to its colour-pattern and other morphological characters. Furthermore, we registered a record of the maximum total body length for this species from a female specimen [230 cm], which was killed by villagers, from Dikmece village (Hatay) in October 2011.
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