Trimeresurus brongersmai

Brongersma's pit viper
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Viperidae
Subfamily: Crotalinae
Genus: Trimeresurus
Species: T. brongersmai
Binomial name
Trimeresurus brongersmai
Hoge, 1969
Synonyms
  • Trimeresurus brongersmai Hoge, 1969[2]
  • Trimeresurus (Craspedocephalus) brongersmai
    David et al., 2011[3]

Trimeresurus brongersmai is a venomous pit viper species endemic to Indonesia on the island of Simalur. No subspecies are currently recognized.[4]

Common names: Brongersma's pit viper.[5]

Etymology

The specific name, brongersmai, is in honor of Dutch herpetologist Leo Brongersma.[6]

Description

Scalation includes 19 (or 21) rows of dorsal scales at midbody, 136-150 ventral scales, 41-48 divided subcaudal scales, and 9-10 supralabial scales.[5]

Geographic range

T. brongersmai is found in Indonesia on the island of Simalur.

The type locality given is "Lugu, Simalur, Sumatra" (Lugu, Simalur Island off west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia).[2]

See also

References

  1. http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/178541/0
  2. 1 2 McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  3. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org
  4. "Trimeresurus brongersmai ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 28 July 2008.
  5. 1 2 Gumprecht A, Tillack F, Orlov NL, Captain A, Ryabov S. 2004. Asian Pitvipers. First Edition. Berlin: GeitjeBooks. 368 pp. ISBN 3-937975-00-4.
  6. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Trimeresurus brongersmai, p. 39).

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