Trimeresurus strigatus

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Trimeresurus strigatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Viperidae
Subfamily: Crotalinae
Genus: Trimeresurus
Species: T. strigatus
Binomial name
Trimeresurus strigatus
Gray, 1842
Synonyms
  • Trimesurus [sic] strigatus Gray, 1842
  • Atropos Darwini
    A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron &
    A.H.A. 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]
  • Trimeresurus strigatus
    – Herrmann et al., 2004
  • Trimeresurus (Craspedocephalus) strigatus – David et al., 2011[2]
Common names: horseshoe pitviper.[3]

Trimeresurus strigatus is a venomous pitviper species found in southern India. No subspecies are currently recognized.[4]

Geographic range

Found in the hills of southern India, Trimeresurus strigatus is distributed in the Nilgiri, Anaimalai, Palni, Tinnevelly, and Shevaroy Hills of the Eastern Ghats at elevations of 3,000-6,000 ft (900-1,800 m) (M.A. Smith, 1943).

The type locality listed is "Cape of Good Hope?" and "Madras?" (Madras, India). The former must be a mistake.[1] Boulenger (1896) restricted the type locality to "Madras Presidency".[2]

Description

Trimeresurus strigatus may be distinguished from other pit vipers of peninsular India based on the presence of small internasals, 21 rows of keeled dorsal scales at midbody, and a single row of scales between labials and suboculars.

The common name of the species is based on the presence of a pale buff horseshoe-shaped mark on the nape.

Of 12 snakes measured, the mean snout-vent length (SVL) was 24.4 ± 7.04 cm (9.6 ± 2.8 in), the tail length (tL) was 3.5 ± 0.8 cm (1.4 ± 0.3 in), and the weight was 172 ± 10.5 g (6 ± 0.4 oz).[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ "Trimeresurus strigatus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 27 September 2006. 

Further reading

  • Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. III., Containing the...Viperidæ. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor & Francis, Printers.) xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I.- XXV. (Lachesis strigatus, pp. 549–550.)
  • Gray, J.E. 1842. Synopsis of the species of Rattle-Snakes, or Family of CROTALIDÆ. The Zoological Miscellany 2: 47-51. ("Trimesurus [sic] strigatus", p. 49.)
  • 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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