Trimeresurus stejnegeri

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iTrimeresurus stejnegeri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Viperidae
Subfamily: Crotalinae
Genus: Trimeresurus
Species: T. stejnegeri
Binomial name
Trimeresurus stejnegeri
Schmidt, 1925

Common names: Chinese green tree viper, Stejneger's bamboo pit viper.


Trimeresurus stejnegeri is a venomous pit viper species found in India and parts of Southeast Asia.

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[edit] Description

Grows to a total length of 75 cm, with a tail length of 14.5 cm.[1]

Scales in 21 longitudinal rows at midbody; 9-11 upper labials, first upper labials separated from nasals by a distinct suture; a single narrow supraocular, sometimes divided by transverse suture; 11-16 scales in a line between supraoculars; above bright to dark green, below pale green to whitish, the two separated by a bright bicolored orange or brown (below) and white (above) (males) or bicolored or white only (females) ventrolateral stripe, which occupies the whole of the outermost scale row and a portion of the second row; ventrals 150-174, subcaudals 54-77, all paired; hemipenes short, spinose beyond bifurcation.[1]

[edit] Geographic range

Assam (India), and Nepal through Myanmar and Thailand to China (Kwangsi, Kwangtung, Hainan, Fukien, Chekiang, Yunnan) and Taiwan.[2] Leviton et al. (2003) also mention Vietnam.[1] The type locality was originally listed as "Shaowu, Fukien Province, China", and later emended to "N.W. Fukien Province" by Pope & Pope (1933).[2]

[edit] Subspecies

Subspecies[3] Authority[3] Common name Geographic range
T. s. chenbihuii Zhao, 1997 Chen's bamboo pit viper Hainan, China.[4]
T. s. stejnegeri Schmidt, 1925 Chinese green tree viper Assam (India), and Nepal through Myanmar and Thailand to China (Kwangsi, Kwangtung, Fukien, Chekiang) and Taiwan.[2]
T. s. yunnanensis Schmidt, 1925 Yunnan bamboo pit viper Southern China (Yunnan and southwestern Sichuan)[5]

[edit] Cited references

  1. ^ a b c Leviton AE, Wogan GOU, Koo MS, Zug GR, Lucas RS, Vindum JV. 2003. The Dangerously Venomous Snakes of Myanmar, Illustrated Checklist with Keys. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 54 (24): 407-462.
  2. ^ a b c McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  3. ^ a b Trimeresurus stejnegeri (TSN 634931). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Accessed on 27 September 2006.
  4. ^ Species Trimeresurus stejnegeri at the EMBL Reptile Database
  5. ^ Species Trimeresurus yunnanensis at the EMBL Reptile Database

[edit] Other references

  • Creer, S.; Malhotra, A.; Thorpe, R.S.; Chou, W.H. 2001 Multiple causation of phylogeographical pattern as revealed by nested clade analysis of the bamboo viper (Trimeresurus stejnegeri) within Taiwan. Molecular Ecology 10(8):1967-1981
  • Gumprecht, A.; Tillack, F.; Orlov, N.L.; Captain, A. & Ryabow, S. 2004 Asian Pit Vipers. Geitje Books, Berlin, 368 pp.
  • Malhotra, Anita & Roger S. Thorpe 2004 Maximizing information in systematic revisions: a combined molecular and morphological analysis of a cryptic green Pit Viper complex (Trimeresurus stejnegeri).Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 82 (2): 219
  • Parkinson,C.L. 1999 Molecular systematics and biogeographical history of Pit Vipers as determined by mitochondrial ribosomal DNA sequences. Copeia 1999 (3): 576-586
  • Peng, G. & Fuji, Z. 2001 Comparative studies on hemipenes of four species of Trimeresurus (sensu stricto) (Serpentes: Crotalinae). Amphibia-Reptilia 22 (1): 113-117
  • Tu, M.-C. et al. 2000 Phylogeny, Taxonomy, and Biogeography of the Oriental Pit Vipers of the Genus Trimeresurus (Reptilia: ViperidaCrotalinae): A Molecular Perspective. ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE 17: 1147-1157

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