Trimeresurus gumprechti

Trimeresurus gumprechti
Trimeresurus gumprechti (female), Phu Hin Rong Kla National Park
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Viperidae
Subfamily: Crotalinae
Genus: Trimeresurus
Species: T. gumprechti
Binomial name
Trimeresurus gumprechti
David, Vogel, Pauwels & Vidal, 2002
Synonyms
  • Trimeresurus gumprechti
    David, Vogel, Pauwels & Vidal, 2002
  • Viridovipera gumprechti
    — Malhotra & Thorpe, 2004
  • Trimeresurus (Viridovipera) gumprechti
    — David, Vogel & Dubois, 2011[2]

Trimeresurus gumprechti (Gumprecht's green pitviper) is a species of venomous pitviper endemic to Asia.

Geographic range

T. gumprechti is found in parts of China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.[2]

Taxonomy

T. gumprechti was described as a new species in 2002 by:

Description

T. gumprechti is strikingly bright green in color. A photo of this arboreal snake was chosen as the cover image of a 2008 report published by the World Wildlife Fund called "First Contact in the Greater Mekong - new species discoveries".[3]

Etymology

The specific name, gumprechti, is in honor of German herpetologist Andreas Gumprecht.[4]

See also

References

  1. Stuart, B.; Chan-Ard, T.; Nguyen, T.Q. (2012). "Viridovipera gumprechti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2012: e.T192108A2040756. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Trimeresurus gumprechti ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. First Contact in the Greater Mekong - new species discoveries.
  4. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Trimeresurus gumprechti, p. 112).

Further reading


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