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Protobothrops cornutus (SMITH, 1930)

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Higher TaxaViperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Horned Pit Viper (Fi-Si-Pan)
Chinese: 角原矛头蝮 
SynonymTrimeresurus cornutus SMITH 1930: 682
Trimeresurus cornutus — SMITH 1943: 514
Trimeresurus cornutus — WELCH 1994: 113
Trimeresurus cornutus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 331
Ceratrimeresurus shenlii LIANG & LIU in LIANG 2003
Protobothrops cornutus — HERRMANN et al. 2004
Protobothrops cornutus — MALHOTRA & THORPE 2004
Protobothrops cornutus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 571
Protobothrops cornutus — WANG et al. 2022 
DistributionVietnam, China (Guangdong, Fujian)

Type locality: Mt. Fan Si Pan, Lai Chau Province, N. Vietnam.

C. shenlii: type locality: Wuzhishan Forest, Ruyuan County, Guangdong Province, China (24°30′-24°48′N, 112°56′-113°4′E)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1946.1.19.25 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1421 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentVenomous!

Abundance: Relatively rare species with only a few specimens collected.

Distribution: see map in Guo et a. 2016: 383 (Fig. 1).

Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
References
  • David, Patrick; Tong H., Vogel G. & M. Tian ( 2008. On the status of the Chinese pitviper Ceratrimeresurus shenlii Liang and Liu in Liang, 2003 (Serpentes, Viperidae), with the addition of Protobothrops cornutus (Smith, 1930) to the Chinese snake fauna. Asiatic Herpetological Research, Vol. Asiatic Herpetological Research 11: 17-23 - get paper here
  • GONG Shi-Ping; WANG Hai-Jing; YANG Chang-Teng; YU Chun-Sheng; PAN Dong-Sheng; WANG Fu-Min 2010. Protobothrops cornutus Discovered in Tianjingshan Forest,Guangdong Province,China. Chinese J. Zool. - get paper here
  • Gong, Shiping; Hitschfeld, Ellen; Hundsdörfer, Anna K.; Auer, Markus; Wang, Fumin; Zhou, Lihua; Fritz, Uwe 2011. Is the horned pitviper Ceratrimeresurus shenlii Liang and Liu, 2003 from China a valid Protobothrops? Amphibia-Reptilia 32 (1): 132-135 - get paper here
  • Gumprecht, A.; Tillack, F.; Orlov, N.L.; Captain, A. & Ryabow, S. 2004. Asian pitvipers. Geitje Books, Berlin, 368 pp.
  • GUO, PENG; QIN LIU, TAO WEN, RONG XIAO, MING FANG, GUANGHUI ZHONG, NGUYEN Q. TRUONG, FEI ZHU, ROBERT C. JADIN, CAO LI 2016. Multilocus phylogeny of the Asian Lance-headed pitvipers (Squamata, Viperidae, Protobothrops). Zootaxa 4093 (3): 382–390 - get paper here
  • Harrington, Sean M; Jordyn M de Haan, Lindsey Shapiro, Sara Ruane 2018. Habits and characteristics of arboreal snakes worldwide: arboreality constrains body size but does not affect lineage diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125 (1): 61–71 - get paper here
  • Herrmann, H.-W.; Ziegler, T.; Malhotra, A.; Thorpe, R.S. & Parkinson, C.L. 2004. Redescription and systematics of Trimeresurus cornutus (Serpentes: Viperidae)based on morphology and molecular data. Herpetologica 60 (2): 211-221 - get paper here
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  • Liang, Q. 2003. Reptiles of Guangdong Nanling Nature Reserve. In: Pang, X. (Ed.), Studies on Biodiversity of the Guangdong Nanling National Nature Reserve. (In Chinese). Guangdong Science and Technology Press, Guangzhou: 408–417
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  • Malhotra, Anita & Thorpe, Roger S. 2004. A phylogeny of four mitochondrial gene regions suggests a revised taxonomy for Asian pitvipers (Trimeresurus and Ovophis). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 32: 83 –100 [erratum p. 680] - get paper here
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