Biology:Trimeresurus andersonii
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Short description: Species of snake
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Viperidae |
| Genus: | Trimeresurus |
| Species: | T. andersonii
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| Binomial name | |
| Trimeresurus andersonii Theobald, 1868
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Trimeresurus andersonii is a venomous pitviper species[1] endemic to the Andaman Islands of India . Common names include: Nicobar mangrove pit viper,[3] Anderson's pitviper,[4] and Andaman pit viper.
Etymology
The specific name, andersonii, is in honor of Scottish zoologist John Anderson,[5] who worked in India 1864-1886 and was the first curator of the Indian Museum in Calcutta (now called Kolkata).
Geographic range
T. andersonii is found only in the Andaman Islands of India . The type locality given by Theobald (1868) is "No record", which was restricted to "Andaman Islands" by Regenass and Kramer (1981).[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (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).
- ↑ "Trimeresurus andersonii ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ↑ Mehrtens JM (1987). Living Snakes of the World in Color. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. ISBN:0-8069-6460-X.
- ↑ Gumprecht A, Tillack F, Orlov NL, Captain A, Ryabov S (2004). Asian Pitvipers. First Edition. Berlin: Geitje Books. 368 pp. ISBN:3-937975-00-4.
- ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN:978-1-4214-0135-5. (Trimeresurus andersonii, p. 8).
Further reading
- Das I (1999). "Biogeography of the amphibians and reptiles of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India". pp. 43–77. In: Ota H (editor) (1999). Tropical Island Herpetofauna ... Amsterdam: Elsevier. 353 pp. ISBN:978-0444501950.
- Malhotra A, Thorpe RS (1996). "New perspectives on the evolution of south-east Asian Pit Vipers (genus Trimeresurus) from molecular studies". pp. 115–128. In: Thorpe RS, Wüster W, Malhotra A (editors) (1996).Venomous Snakes: Ecology, Evolution and Snakebite. Oxford, England: The Zoological Society of London / Clarendon Press. 296 pp. ISBN:978-0198549864.
- Smith MA (1943). The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. III.—Serpentes. Secretary of State for India. (Taylor and Francis, printers.) London. xii + 583 pp. (Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus andersoni, pp. 521–522).
- Theobald W (1868). "Catalogue of Reptiles in the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal". J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 37 ("Extra Number"): vi + 7-88. ("Trimeresurus Andersoni", new species, pp. 75–76).
External links
- Trimeresurus andersonii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 17 December 2012.
Wikidata ☰ Q3012419 entry
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