Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus
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| Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus (Gray, 1832) |
Common names: shore pit viper, mangrove viper.
Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus is a venomous pit viper species found in parts of India and Southeast Asia.
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[edit] Description
Males grow to a total length of 66.5 cm, females 90 cm. The tail lengths are then 12.5 cm and 14 cm respectively.[1]
Scales in 25-27 longitudinal rows at midbody; 11-13 upper labials, the first partially or completely united with the nasal; supraocular very narrow, sometimes broken into small scales, 12-15 scales between them; head scales small, subequal, tuberculate or granular; temporal scales keeled; body color highly variable, above olive, grayish, to dark purplish brown, below whitish, greenish or brown, uniform or spotted with brown; a light line on scale row one bordering ventrals present or absent; head olive, heavily suffused with brown; ventrals: males 160-179, females 168-183; subcaudals: males 74-76, females 56-63, paired; hemipenes without spines.[1]
[edit] Geographic range
India (Assam, Andaman Islands), Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, West Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia (Sumatra). The type locality is listed as "Singapore."[2]
[edit] References
- Gray, J. E. 1831 Illustrations of lndian Zoology: chiefly selected from the collection of Major General Hardwicke. Vol. 1, London (1830-1835)
- Gumprecht,A. 2001 Die Bambusottern der Gattung Trimeresurus Lacépède Teil IV: Checkliste der Trimeresurus-Arten Thailands. Sauria 23 (2): 25-32
- Gumprecht, A.; Tillack, F.; Orlov, N.L.; Captain, A. & Ryabow, S. 2004 Asian Pit Vipers. Geitje Books, Berlin, 368 pp.
- Pope,C.H. & Pope, S.H. 1933 A study of the green pit-vipers of southeastern Asia and Malaysia, commonly identified as Trimeresurus gramineus (Shaw), with description of a new species from Peninsular India. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 620: 1-12
- Whitaker, R. 1978 Birth Record of the Andaman Pit Viper (Trimeresurus Purpureomaculatus ) J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 75 (1): 233
