Gloydius strauchi is a species of venomous pit viper in the subfamily Crotalinae of the family Viperidae.

This species jointly holds the altitude record for pitvipers together with Crotalus triseriatus of Mexico, both being found even above the tree line at over 4,000 m (13,000 ft).

[6] According to Gloyd and Conant (1990), G. strauchi is a small snake, probably not growing to much more than 50 cm (19+5⁄8 in) in total length.

The type locality given is "Dytschu, also den Oberlauf des Jan-tse-kiang... Tung-o-lo (Kamennoe Nagorie) und Daudsen-lu (Szytschuan)".

Pope (1935) "restricted" the type locality to "Tungngolo" (located between Lit'ang and K'angting, Hsikang, China).