Trimeresurus stejnegeri yunnanensis

Taxobox
name = "Trimeresurus stejnegeri yunnanensis"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Serpentes
familia = Viperidae
subfamilia = Crotalinae
genus = "Trimeresurus"
species = "T. stejnegeri"
subspecies = "T. s. yunnanensis"
trinomial = "Trimeresurus stejnegeri yunnanensis"
trinomial_authority = Schmidt, 1925
synonyms = * "Trimeresurus yunnanensis" - Schmidt, 1925
* "Trimeresurus gramineus yunnanensis" - Stejneger, 1927
* "Trimeresurus stejnegeri yunnanensis" - Pope, 1935McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).]

:"Common names: Yunnan bamboo pitviper.Gumprecht A, Tillack F, Orlov NL, Captain A, Ryabov S. 2004. Asian Pitvipers. GeitjeBooks Berlin. 1st Edition. 368 pp. ISBN 3-937975-00-4.] ""Trimeresurus stejnegeri yunnanensis" is a venomous pitviper subspeciesITIS|ID=635228|taxon="Trimeresurus stejnegeri yunnanensis"|year=2008|date=12 August] found in India and Burma.

Description

The scalation includes 19 (19 (21)) rows of dorsal scales at midbody, 154-164/150-172 ventral scales in males/females, 61-71/52-65 subcaudal scales in males/females and 9-11 supralabial scales.

Geographic range

Found in India (in West Bengal, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim) and Burma.The type locality given is "Tengyueh, Yunnan Province, China" (= Tengchong County).

Taxonomy

Zhao (1995) raised this taxon back up to the level of a full species: "T. yunnanensis".

ee also

* List of crotaline species and subspecies
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* Snakebite

References