Unmasking the Desert Phantom: Genetic Evidence Does Not Support the Validity of the Enigmatic Boehme's Horned Viper
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00023272%3A_____%2F25%3A10136855" target="_blank" >RIV/00023272:_____/25:10136855 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/25:10507967
Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zsc.70013" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zsc.70013</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zsc.70013" target="_blank" >10.1111/zsc.70013</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Unmasking the Desert Phantom: Genetic Evidence Does Not Support the Validity of the Enigmatic Boehme's Horned Viper
Original language description
The viperid genus Cerastes contains four desert-adapted species distributed throughout the Saharo-Arabian arid belt that are typically associated with loose sands. Cerastes boehmei is restricted to one locality in Tunisia and is known only from the holotype. Since its description, it has been speculated that this species, which exhibits distinctive horn-like supraocular scales, could be an aberrant specimen of another desert-adapted viper of the same genus, C. vipera. In this study, we present genetic data from the holotype specimen of C. boehmei for the first time. We used Sanger and Illumina sequencing and obtained sequences for three mitochondrial genes (12S, 16S, cytb) and three nuclear genes (MC1R, NT-3, VIM) and constructed two separate phylogenetic trees based on these data sets. Additionally, we generated a phylogenetic analysis based on the coding regions of mitogenomes of all the Cerastes species. The analyses of both the mitochondrial and the nuclear data clearly show that the C. boehmei holotype is nested within C. vipera. Based on our results, we formally synonymise Cerastes boehmei Wagner & Wilms, 2010 with Cerastes vipera (Linnaeus, 1758). This taxonomic revision is supported by robust genetic evidence and will help to resolve the long-lasting debate concerning the validity of the species.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10613 - Zoology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA25-17736S" target="_blank" >GA25-17736S: Evolutionary diversity of desert reptiles across phylogenetic and spatial scales: hotspots, refugia, and their conservation</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Zoologica Scripta
ISSN
0300-3256
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
54
Issue of the periodical within the volume
July
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
6
Pages from-to
817-822
UT code for WoS article
999
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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