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Vipera ammodytes
montandoni
Welcome
t Keeping exotic animals is undergoing
a revival throughout the world nowadays.
Exhibitions attracting thousands of visitors
and the myriad community groups and
specialised pet shops are all good examples
of the phenomenon. Nevertheless, there
are only few magazines in which all animal
lovers could find their pet, be it a snake,
a chameleon, a shrimp, a tortoise or any
other kind of terrarium animals.
That’s why we, having two decades
experience in publishing, have decided to
create such a unique magazine.
We tried to consult experts from many fields
who also have a good deal of practical
experience of animal keeping, feeder animal
breeding or terrarium building. The Internet
is a huge melting pot of knowledge,
opinions and ideas, from which it is hard to
pick the really useful and quality
information. We aimed to change this
situation by issuing an online magazine
written by experts with decades-long
experience.
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Classification is not only
facilitated by scientific
knowledge summarizing
mostly morphological and
functional descriptive features,
but also those names and
nomenclature rules that
nomenclature and
onomatology deals with.
former example, nose-horned viper from the other species
of the Vipera genus).
Subspecies are given not a binomial but a trinomial
scientific name. The scientific name of the subspecies of
the nose-horned viper (Vipera ammodytes) that is endemic
to Bulgaria and southern Romania is Vipera ammodytes
montandoni. Within the species in question, the subspecies
name of the originally described type-subspecies is always
identical with the species name. Upon indicating the
subspecies, the first two parts of the trinomial name are
often abbreviated (for example V.a. ammodytes, V.a.
montandoni, V.a. meridionalis). Of course, not every species
can be divided into subspecies, so the use of trinomial
scientific names is only applicable to the so-called poly-
typic species, which contain more subspecies.
The scientific names of the organisms – in favour of
the worldwide unity – are determined by strict formal and
technical regulations. The regulations and nominations are
determined by the so-called international codes of nomen-
clatures: for animals this is the International Code of
Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN).
Zoltán Nemes-Nagy l Publisher
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