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| Trimeresurus strigatus |
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Trimeresurus strigatus
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| Synonyms |
- Trimesurus strigatus - Gray, 1842
- Atropos Darwini - Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854
- Trigonocephalus (Cophias) neelgherriensis - Jerdon, 1854
- Trimesurus Nielgherriensis - Beddome, 1862
- T[rigonocephalus]. Darwini - Jan, 1859
- B[othrops] Darwini - Jan, 1863
- T[rimeresurus]. strigolus - Theobald, 1868
- Crotalus Trimeres[urus]. strigatus - Higgins, 1873
- T[rimeresurus]. strigatus - Theobald, 1876
- T[rigonocephalus]. Nilghiriensis - Theobald, 1876
- Lachesis strigatus - Boulenger, 1896
- Trimeresurus strigatus - M.A. Smith, 1943
- P[rotobothrops]. strigatus - Kraus, Mink & Brown, 1996[1]
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- Common names: horseshoe pitviper.[2]
Trimeresurus strigatus is a venomous pitviper species found in southern India. No subspecies are currently recognized.[3]
[edit] Geographic range
Found in the hills of southern India. The type locality listed is "Cape of Good Hope?" and "Madras?" (Madras, India). The former must be a mistake.[1]
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[edit] Further reading
- Boulenger, G.A. 1896 Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, Vol. 3. London (Taylor & Francis), xiv + 727 pp.
- Gray, J. E. 1842 Synopsis of the species of Rattle snakes, or Family of Crotalidae. The Zoological Miscellany 2: 47- 51.
- Gumprecht, A.; Tillack, F.; Orlov, N.L.; Captain, A. & Ryabow, S. 2004 Asian pitvipers. Geitje Books, Berlin, 368 pp.
- Herrmann, H.-W.; Ziegler, T.; Malhotra, A.; Thorpe, R.S. & Parkinson, C.L. 2004 Redescription and systematics of Trimeresurus cornutus (Serpentes: Viperidae)based on morphology and molecular data. Herpetologica 60 (2): 211-221
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