Trimeresurus tenasserimensis IDIIATULLINA, NGUYEN, PAWANGKHANANT, SUWANNAPOOM, CHANHOME, MIRZA, DAVID, VOGEL & POYARKOV, 2024
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Trimeresurus tenasserimensis
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| Higher Taxa | Viperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Common Names | Thai: Ngu Khiew Hang Mai Thong Khiew Tanao Sri” (งูเขียวหางไหม้ท้อง เขียวตะนาวศรี) Chinese: Dān nà shā lín zhú yè qīng” (丹那沙林竹叶青) E: Tenasserim green pitviper G: Tenasserim Bambusotter F: Trimérésure vert du Tenasserim Russian: Tenasserimskaya bambukovaya kufiya |
| Synonym | Trimeresurus (Popeia) tenasserimensis IDIIATULLINA, NGUYEN, PAWANGKHANANT, SUWANNAPOOM, CHANHOME, MIRZA, DAVID, VOGEL & POYARKOV 2024: 326 Trimeresurus gramineus – POPE & POPE 1933: 9 (in part) (non Coluber gramineus SHAW, 1802) Trimeresurus popeiorum – SMITH 1943: 518 (in part) (non Trimeresurus popeiorum SMITH 1937) Trimeresurus popeiorum popeiorum – REGENASS & KRAMER 1981:186 (in part) Trimeresurus stejnegeri – LEVITON et al. 2003: 448 (in part) (non Trimeresurus stejnegeri SCHMIDT 1925) |
| Distribution | Thailand (Ratchaburi) Type locality: Suan Phueng District, Ratchaburi Province, Thailand (13.55358°N, 99.20528°E; elevation 640 m) |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype. ZMMU Re-17668 (adult male) collected by P. Pawangkhanant on 7 June 2019. Paratypes (n = 4). Thailand. ZMMU Re-17671 (adult female) collected on 3 June 2019, same information than the holotype. — Myanmar. Tanintharyi Region: NHMUK 1924.5.20.38 (adult male) from Paya Taung Mt., Dawei City; CAS 247870 (adult male) and CAS 247754 (adult female) from Kawthaung District. Other specimens (n = 5). Thailand. ZMMU Re 17672 (subadult male) and ZMMU Re-17670 (subadult female) collected on 3 June 2019, ZMMU Re-17673 (subadult male) collected on 17 July 2019, all same information with holotype. — Myanmar. Taninthayi Region: NHMUK 1856.5.6.105 from Myeik Is., Myeik District; NHMUK = BMNH 1940.3.9.43 (adult male) from Kisseraing Is, Myeik District. Myanmar. Tanintharyi Region: USNM 587920 (subadult female), USNM 587921 (adult male) from Kawthaung District; USNM 587588 (adult female) Lenya Area; and USNM 587919 (adult female) from Ywahilu Village (see detail from Mulcahy et al. 2017). |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Trimeresurus tenasserimensis differs from other members of the subgenus Popeia by the combination of the following morphological characters: (1) dorsal surfaces deep green, with faint dark, interstitial crossbands; (2) in males, a wide, bicolored ventrolateral stripe, bright red ventrally, white dorsally; in females, ventrolateral stripe thin, pale yellow anteriorly, whitish posteriorly; (3) in males, a conspicuous, bicolored postocular streak, white and thin ventrally, broad and bright red dorsally, covering two or three temporal scales; in females, streak absent or only white; (4) eyes red to deep red in both males and females; (5) 21 dorsal scales rows at midbody, strongly keeled except those of the first dorsal scale row, always smooth; (6) 159–176 ventrals (159–170 in males, 154–176 in females); 57–74 subcaudals with slightly overlapping sexual dimorphism (66–74 in males, 57–66 in females), all paired; (7) first supralabial entirely separated from the nasal scale by a distinct suture; (8) supraoculars relatively narrow, narrower than internasals, separated by 9–11 cephalic scales; (9) internasals not in contact, separated by one scale; (10) 10–11 cephalic scales between the supraoculars in both sexes; (11) relative tail length 0.20–0.23 in males, 0.14–0.16 in females. (IDIIATULLINA et al. 2024) |
| Comment | Synonymy: see IDIIATULLINA et al. 2024 who also provide a more extensive chresonymy. |
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