Trimeresurus medoensis
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| Trimeresurus medoensis Zhao, 1977 |
Common names: green bamboo leaf pit viper, Medo pit viper.
Trimeresurus medoensis is a venomous pit viper species found in Myanmar, India and China (Tibet).
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[edit] Description
Scales in 17 longitudinal rows at midbody, dorsal rows 7-11 slightly keeled; 8 upper labials, first upper labials separated from nasals by a distinct suture; green or bluish green above, yellowish white below, the two separated by a bright bicolored red (below) and white (above) ventrolateral stripe (in both males and females), which occupies the whole of the outermost scale row and a portion of the second row; ventrals less than 150; hemipenes short, thick, spinose. Total length males 671 mm, females 650; tail length males 125 mm, females 115 mm.
[edit] Geographic range
Northern Myanmar, eastern India and western China (southeast Xizang = Tibet). The type locality listed is "near Ani Bridge, Motuo, Xizang, at 1200 m elevation."
[edit] References
- David, Patrick, Ashok Captain and Bharat B. Bhatt 2002 On the occurrence of Trimeresurus medoensis Djao in: Djao & Jaing, 1977 (Serpentes, Viperidae, Crotalinae) in India, with a redescription of the species and notes on its biology. Hamadryad 26(2):210-226 [2001]
- Gumprecht, A.; Tillack, F.; Orlov, N.L.; Captain, A. & Ryabow, S. 2004 Asian Pit Vipers. Geitje Books, Berlin, 368 pp.
[edit] External links
- Species Trimeresurus medoensis at the Species2000 Database
- Trimeresurus medoensis (TSN 634925). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Accessed on 27 September 2006.
- Trimeresurus medoensis 1 at Uetz Lab. Accessed 27 September 2006.
- Trimeresurus medoensis 2 at Uetz Lab. Accessed 27 September 2006.
- Trimeresurus medoensis 3 at Uetz Lab. Accessed 27 September 2006.
