Trimeresurus elegans

Trimeresurus elegans
Trimeresurus elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Viperidae
Subfamily: Crotalinae
Genus: Trimeresurus
Species: T. elegans
Binomial name
Trimeresurus elegans
(Gray, 1849)
Synonyms
  • Craspedocephalus elegans - Gray, 1849
  • Trimeresurus luteus - Boettger, 1895
  • Trimeresurus luteus - Boettger, 1895
  • Lachesis luteus - Boulenger, 1896
  • Lachesis lutea - Boettger, 1898
  • Trimeresurus elegans - Stejneger, 1907
  • Trimeresurus mucrosq[uamatus]. elegans - Mell, 1929
  • P[rotobothrops]. elegans - Kraus, Mink & Brown, 1996[1]
Common names: elegant pitviper,[2] Sakishima habu,[3] elegant tree viper.[4]

Trimeresurus elegans is a venomous pitviper species found in Japan in the southern Ryukyu Islands. No subspecies are currently recognized.[5] The species is aggressive with large fangs. It can strike at over one half the length of its body.

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Description

Scalation includes 25 (sometimes 23) rows of dorsal scales at midbody, 179-192 or 182-196 ventral scales, 63-90 subcaudal scales and 8 (sometimes 7 or 9) supralabial scales.[2]

Geographic range

Found in Japan in the southern Ryukyu Islands. The type locality is unknown. Boulenger listed it as "---- ?" while Gray's original 1849 description gives "West Coast of [North?] America." A restriction to "Ishigaki-Shima [Ryukyu Islands, Japan]" was proposed by Stejneger (1907).[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  2. ^ a b Gumprecht A, Tillack F, Orlov NL, Captain A, Ryabov S. 2004. Asian Pitvipers. GeitjeBooks Berlin. 1st Edition. 368 pp. ISBN 3-937975-00-4.
  3. ^ Mehrtens JM. 1987. Living Snakes of the World in Color. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. ISBN 0-8069-6460-X.
  4. ^ Brown JH. 1973. Toxicology and Pharmacology of Venoms from Poisonous Snakes. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas. 184 pp. LCCCN 73-229. ISBN 0-398-02808-7.
  5. ^ "Trimeresurus elegans". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=634909. Retrieved 25 July 2008. 

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