Trimeresurus hageni

Trimeresurus hageni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Viperidae
Subfamily: Crotalinae
Genus: Trimeresurus
Species: T. hageni
Binomial name
Trimeresurus hageni
(Lidth de Jeude, 1886)
Synonyms
  • Bothrops Hageni
    Lidth de Jeude, 1886
  • Lachesis sumatranus (part)
    Boulenger, 1896
  • Trimeresurus hageni
    Brongersma, 1933[2]
  • Parias hageni
    — Malhotra & Thorpe, 2004
  • Trimeresurus (Parias) hageni
    — David et al., 2011[3]
Common names: Hagen's pit viper,[4] Hagen's green pit viper [1]

Trimeresurus hageni is a venomous pit viper species endemic to Southeast Asia. No subspecies are currently recognized.[5]

Etymology

The specific name, hageni, is in honor of naturalist Dr. Bernhard Hagen, who collected mammals, birds, reptiles, and insects in the eastern part of Sumatra.[6][7]

Description

Scalation includes 21 rows of dorsal scales at midbody, 176–198 ventral scales, 63–89 subcaudal scales, and 9–12 supralabial scales.[4]

Geographic range

This species is found in Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia (Sumatra and the nearby islands of Bangka, Simalur, Nias, Batu, and the Mentawai Islands).

The type locality given is "Sumatra ... [and] island of Banka". Brongersma (1933) emended this to "Deli, Sumatra".[2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/191906/0
  2. 1 2 McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 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).
  3. "Trimeresurus hageni ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  4. 1 2 Gumprecht A, Tillack F, Orlov NL, Captain A, Ryabov S. 2004. Asian Pit vipers. GeitjeBooks. Berlin. 1st Edition. 368 pp. ISBN 3-937975-00-4.
  5. "Trimeresurus hageni ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 28 July 2008.
  6. Jentink FA. 1888. On a Collection of Mammals from East-Sumatra. Notes from the Leyden Museum 11 (6):17–30.
  7. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Trimeresurus hageni, pp. 113-114).

Further reading


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