Trimeresurus cantori
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| Trimeresurus cantori (Blyth, 1846) |
Common names: Cantor's pit viper.
Trimeresurus cantori is a venomous pit viper species endemic to the Nicobar Island of India. It was named after Theodore E. Cantor (1809-1860), a Danish naturalist serving as a surgeon with the East India Company in Calcutta.
[edit] Geographic range
India (Nicobar Island). The type locality is "Nicobar Islands."
[edit] References
- Blyth, E. 1846 J. Asiat. Soc. Beng., 15: 377
- 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
- Gumprecht, A.; Tillack, F.; Orlov, N.L.; Captain, A. & Ryabow, S. 2004 Asian Pit Vipers. Geitje Books, Berlin, 368 pp.
- Parkinson,C.L. 1999 Molecular systematics and biogeographical history of Pit Vipers as determined by mitochondrial ribosomal DNA sequences. Copeia 1999 (3): 576-586
[edit] External links
- Species Trimeresurus cantori at the Species2000 Database
- Trimeresurus cantori (TSN 634907). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Accessed on 27 September 2006.
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