Abstract :
The genus Montivipera comprised of two recognized clades in light of molecular as well as morphological 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 and Lebanon. The second clade, the ‘raddei-complex’, comprises populations over a wide range from north-western and western Iran to the southern half of Armenia, south of Azerbaijan, Nakhchivan and eastern Turkey. (Nilson Andrén, 1986; Behrooz et al., 2018).
