Trimeresurus andersonii

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.

Pitviper

Trimeresurus andersonii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Viperidae
Genus: Trimeresurus
Species:
T. andersonii
Binomial name
Trimeresurus andersonii
Theobald, 1868
Synonyms
  • T[rimeresurus]. Andersoni
    Theobald, 1868
  • T[rimeresurus]. obscurus
    Theobald, 1868
  • Crotalus Trimeres[urus]. Andersonii
    — Higgins, 1873
  • Trimeresurus andersonii
    — Boulenger, 1890
  • Trimeresurus acutimentalis
    F. Werner, 1926
  • Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus andersoni
    — M.A. Smith, 1943[1]
  • Trimeresurus andersonii
    — Gumprecht et al., 2004
  • Cryptelytrops andersonii
    — Malhotra & Thorpe, 2004
  • Trimeresurus (Trimeresurus) andersonii
    — David et al., 2011[2]

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

It 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. 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).
  2. "Trimeresurus andersonii ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. Mehrtens JM (1987). Living Snakes of the World in Color. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. ISBN 0-8069-6460-X.
  4. 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.
  5. 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).
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