Protobothrops mucrosquamatus
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Trimeresurus mucrosquamatus |
Brown spotted Pit Viper Protobothrops mucrosquamatus is a species of snake. DIAGNOSTIC CHARACTERS: Scales in 25 longitudinal rows at midbody; scales on upper surface of head, small, each scale keeled posteriorly; internasals 5-10 times size of adjacent scales, separated by 3-4 scales; supraoculars, long, narrow, undivided, 14-16 small interocular scales in line between them; 2 scales on line between upper preocular and nasal; 9-11 upper labials, first upper labial separated from nasal by suture; 2-3 small scales between upper labials and subocular; 2-3 rows of temporal scales above upper labials smooth, above those scales keeled; ventrals 200-218; subcaudals 76-91, all paired; grayish or olive brown above, with dorsal series of large brown, black-edged spots or blotches, and a lateral series of smaller spots; head above brownish, below whitish; belly whitish but heavily powdered with light brown; tail brownish (possibly pink in life [fide Smith 1943:507]), with series of dark dorsal spots; hemipenes spinose. Total length males 1122 mm, females 1160; tail length males 195 mm, females 205 mm.
Distribution: Bangladesh, India (Assam; Arunachal Pradesh (Itanagar - Papum Pare district) [A. Captain, pers. Comm.] and many other regions), Myanmar (= Burma), N Vietnam, S China (from Yunnan north to Gansu in the west, east to Zhejiang; Fukien, Kwangsi, Kwangtun, Szechwan, Hainan), Taiwan
Type locality: Naga Hills, Assam, India.
[edit] External links
- EMBL reptile database
- http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/photos/Protobothrops_mucrosquamatus.jpg
[edit] References
- Boulenger, George A. 1890 The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp.
- Cantor, T. E. 1839 Spicilegium serpentium indicorum [parts 1 and 2]. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 7: 31-34, 49-55.
- Gumprecht, A.; Tillack, F.; Orlov, N.L.; Captain, A. & Ryabow, S. 2004 Asian Pit Vipers. Geitje Books, Berlin, 368 pp.
- Kraus, Fred; Mink, Daniel G. & Brown, Wesley M. 1996 Crotaline intergeneric relationships based on mitochondrial DNA sequence data. Copeia 1996 (4): 763-773
- Tu, M.-C. et al. 2000 Phylogeny, Taxonomy, and Biogeography of the Oriental Pit Vipers of the Genus Trimeresurus (Reptilia: ViperidaCrotalinae): A Molecular Perspective. ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE 17: 1147-1157
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