Trimeresurus andersonii

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Trimeresurus andersonii
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Viperidae
Genus: Trimeresurus
Species:
T. andersonii
Binomial name
Trimeresurus andersonii
Theobald, 1868
Synonyms
  • T[rimeresurus]. Andersoni
    Theobald, 1868
  • T[rimeresurus]. obscurus
    Theobald, 1868
  • Crotalus Trimeres[urus]. Andersonii
    — Higgins, 1873
  • Trimeresurus andersonii
    — Boulenger, 1890
  • Trimeresurus acutimentalis
    F. Werner, 1926
  • Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus andersoni
    — M.A. Smith, 1943[1]
  • Trimeresurus andersonii
    — Gumprecht et al., 2004
  • Cryptelytrops andersonii
    — Malhotra & Thorpe, 2004
  • Trimeresurus (Trimeresurus) andersonii
    — David et al., 2011[2]

Trimeresurus andersonii is a venomous pitviper species[1] endemic to the Andaman Islands of India. Common names include: Nicobar mangrove pit viper,[3] Anderson's pitviper,[4] and Andaman pit viper.

Pitviper

Etymology[]

The specific name, andersonii, is in honor of Scottish zoologist John Anderson,[5] who worked in India 1864-1886 and was the first curator of the Indian Museum in Calcutta (now called Kolkata).

Geographic range[]

T. andersonii is found only in the Andaman Islands of India. The type locality given by Theobald (1868) is "No record", which was restricted to "Andaman Islands" by and (1981).[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  2. ^ "Trimeresurus andersonii ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ^ (1987). Living Snakes of the World in Color. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. ISBN 0-8069-6460-X.
  4. ^ , , , Captain A, (2004). Asian Pitvipers. First Edition. Berlin: Geitje Books. 368 pp. ISBN 3-937975-00-4.
  5. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Trimeresurus andersonii, p. 8).

Further reading[]

  • Das I (1999). "Biogeography of the amphibians and reptiles of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India". pp. 43–77. In: Ota H (editor) (1999). Tropical Island Herpetofauna ... Amsterdam: Elsevier. 353 pp. ISBN 978-0444501950.
  • , (1996). "New perspectives on the evolution of south-east Asian Pit Vipers (genus Trimeresurus) from molecular studies". pp. 115–128. In: Thorpe RS, Wüster W, Malhotra A (editors) (1996).Venomous Snakes: Ecology, Evolution and Snakebite. Oxford, England: The Zoological Society of London / Clarendon Press. 296 pp. ISBN 978-0198549864.
  • Smith MA (1943). The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. III.—Serpentes. Secretary of State for India. (Taylor and Francis, printers.) London. xii + 583 pp. (Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus andersoni, pp. 521–522).
  • Theobald W (1868). "Catalogue of Reptiles in the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal". J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 37 ("Extra Number"): vi + 7-88. ("Trimeresurus Andersoni", new species, pp. 75–76).

External links[]

Retrieved from ""