Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus andersoni

Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus andersoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Viperidae
Subfamily: Crotalinae
Genus: Trimeresurus
Species: T. purpureomaculatus
Subspecies: T. p. andersoni
Trinomial name
Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus andersoni
Theobald, 1868
Synonyms
  • T[rimeresurus]. Andersoni Theobald, 1868
  • T[rimeresurus]. obscurus Theobald, 1868
  • Crotalus Trimeres[urus]. Andersonii – Higgins, 1873
  • Trimeresurus andersonii
    – Boulenger, 1890
  • Trimeresurus acutimentalis
    F. Werner, 1926
  • Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus andersoni – M.A. Smith, 1943[1]
  • Trimeresurus andersonii
    – Gumprecht et al., 2004
  • Cryptelytrops andersonii
    – Malhotra & Thorpe, 2004
  • Trimeresurus (Trimeresurus) andersonii – David et al., 2011[2]
Common names: Nicobar mangrove pit viper,[3] Anderson's pitviper.[4]

Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus andersoni is a venomous pitviper subspecies[1] endemic to the Andaman Islands of India.

Pitviper

Etymology

The specific name, andersonii, is in honor of Scottish zoologist John Anderson, who worked in India 1864-1886 and was the first curator of the Indian Museum in Calcutta (now called Kolkata).

Geographic range

It is found only in the Andaman Islands of India. The type locality given by Theobald (1868) is "No record", which was restricted to "Andaman Islands" by Regenass and Kramer (1981).[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  2. ↑ The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ↑ Mehrtens JM. 1987. Living Snakes of the World in Color. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. ISBN 0-8069-6460-X.
  4. ↑ Gumprecht A, Tillack F, Orlov NL, Captain A, Ryabov S. 2004. Asian Pitvipers. Geitje Books. Berlin. 1st Edition. 368 pp. ISBN 3-937975-00-4.

Further reading

  • Das, I. 1999. Biogeography of the amphibians and reptiles of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. In: Ota, H. (ed). Tropical Island herpetofauna..., Elsevier, pp. 43–77.
  • Malhotra, A., & R.S. Thorpe. 1996. New perspectives on the evolution of south-east Asian Pit Vipers (genus Trimeresurus) from molecular studies. In: Thorpe, R.S., W. Wüster and A. Malhotra (eds).Venomous snakes: ecology, evolution and snakebite. The Zoological Society of London/Clarendon Press, Oxford. pp. 115–128. [1997]
  • Smith, M.A. 1943. The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia, Vol. III.—Serpentes. Secretary of State for India. (Taylor and Francis, Printers.) London. xii + 583 pp. (Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus andersoni, pp. 521–522.)
  • Theobald, W. 1868. Catalogue of Reptiles in the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 37 ("Extra Number"): vi + 7-88. ("Trimeresurus Andersoni", pp. 75–76.).

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