singvast.blogg.se - Purple and blue pit vipers

"The use of amplified fragment length polymorphism in determining species trees at fine taxonomic levels: analysis of a medically important snake, Trimeresurus albolabris".

^ a b Gumprecht A, Tillack F, Orlov NL, Captain A, Ryabov S.

^ a b Trimeresurus albolabris at the Reptile Database.

Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1.

^ a b McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T.

There have been numerous reported bites with few fatalities. The venom of white-lipped pitviper contains procoagulant properties. Results of bites from this species range from mild envenoming to death. This snake doesn't strike and release its prey like many arboreal snakes, rather holds on to the prey item until it dies.

Its meals consist of birds, small frogs, and small mammals. Distribution and habitat įound in Nepal, northeastern India ( Assam and Jharkhand), Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, southern China ( Fukien, Hainan, Kwangsi, Kwangtung), Hong Kong, Macau, Indonesia ( Sumatra, Java, Lombok, Sumbawa, Komodo, Flores, Sumba, Roti, Kisar, Wetar). A light ventrolateral stripe is present in all males, but absent in females. The belly is green, yellowish or white below.

Ĭolor pattern: green above, the side of the head below the eyes is yellow, white or pale green, much lighter than rest of head. The subcaudals are paired, 60–72 in males, 49–66 in females. The ventral scales are 155–166 in males, 152–176 in females. Midbody has 29 (rarely 19) longitudinal dorsal scale rows. The supraoculars are narrow (occasionally enlarged and undivided) with 8–12 interocular scales between them. Head scales small, subequal, feebly imbricate, smooth or weakly keeled. Head scalation consists of 10–11(12) upper labials, the first partially or completely fused to the nasal. Ĭommon names include green tree pit viper, white-lipped pit viper, white-lipped tree viper, white-lipped green pit viper and white-lipped bamboo pit viper. (2011) returned it to the genus Trimeresurus and assigned it the subgenus Trimeresurus, creating the new combination Trimeresurus (Trimeresurus) albolabris. Malhotra & Thorpe (2004) transferred this species (and a number of others) to the genus Cryptelytrops. (2001) raised insularis and septentrionalis to species level. Trimeresurus albolabris, the white-lipped pit viper or white-lipped tree viper, is a venomous pit viper species endemic to Southeast Asia. Trimeresurus (Trimeresurus) albolabris – David et al., 2011.Trimeresurus albolabris albolabris – Regenass & Kramer, 1981.Trimeresurus gramineus albolabris – Mell, 1922.