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Trimeresurus venustus VOGEL, 1991

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Higher TaxaViperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Beautiful pitviper, Brown-spotted Pit Viper
G: Schöne Bambusotter 
SynonymTrimeresurus venustus VOGEL 1991
Trimeresurus venustus — WELCH 1994: 117
Trimeresurus venustus — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 411
Trimeresurus venustus — GUMPRECHT et al. 2004
Trimeresurus venustus — DAVID et al. 2004
Cryptelytrops venustus — MALHOTRA & THORPE 2004
Trimeresurus (Trimeresurus) venustus — DAVID et al. 2011
Trimeresurus venustus — LIVIGNI 2013: 396
Trimeresurus venustus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 743
Cryptelytrops venustus — CHAN-ARD et al. 2015: 287
Trimeresurus (Trimeresurus) venustus— MIRZA et al. 2023 
DistributionS Thailand

Type locality: “Thung Song, Provinz Nakhon Si Thammarat, Süd-Thailand”  
Reproductionovovivparous 
TypesHolotype: ZMB 48045; Paratypes: ZMB, BMNH; ZSM 127/1990 (given as ZSM 127.1990 in the original description), male, “Thung Song, Provinz Nakhon Si Thammarat, Süd-Thailand”, collected by J. Krimmer, no date; ZSM 128/1990 (given as ZSM 128.1990 in the original description), adult, same locality, collected by G. Vogel, 09.1989. 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1372 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentVenomous!

Synonymy: Regarded as a synonym of Trimeresurus kanburiensis Smith, 1943 by McDiarmid et al. (1999). Older literature references to T. kanburiensis are likely to refer in fact to this taxon.

Similar species: Closely related to C. macrops.

Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018).

Distribution: see map in Sumontha et al. 2021: 318 (Fig. 7). 
EtymologyFrom the Latin venustus (beautiful) in allusion to the bold complex colour pattern.  
References
  • Chan-ard, T., Parr, J.W.K. & Nabhitabhata, J. 2015. A field guide to the reptiles of Thailand. Oxford University Press, NY, 352 pp. [see book reviews by Pauwels & Grismer 2015 and Hikida 2015 for corrections] - get paper here
  • CHEN, ZENING; JIANPING YU, GERNOT VOGEL, SHENGCHAO SHI, ZHAOBIN SONG, YEZHONG TANG, JIA YANG, LI DING, CANGSONG CHEN 2020. A new pit viper of the genus Trimeresurus (Lacépède, 1804) (Squamata: Viperidae) from Southwest China. Zootaxa 4768 (1): 112–128 - get paper here
  • David, P., G. Vogel, M. Sumontha, O. S. G. Pauwels & L. Chanhome 2004. Expanded description of the poorly known pitviper Trimeresurus kanburiensis Smith, 1943, with confirmation of the validity of Trimeresurus venustus Vogel, 1991. Russ. J. Herpetol. 11 (2): 81-9 - get paper here
  • DAVID, PATRICK; GERNOT VOGEL & ALAIN DUBOIS 2011. On the need to follow rigorously the Rules of the Code for the subsequent designation of a nucleospecies (type species) for a nominal genus which lacked one: the case of the nominal genus Trimeresurus Lacépède, 1804 (Reptilia: Squamata: Viperidae). Zootaxa 2992: 1–51 - get paper here
  • Grismer, L. Lee; Tri, Ngo Van; Grismer, Jesse L. 2008. A new species of insular pitviper of the genus Cryptelytrops (Squamata: Viperidae) from southern Vietnam. Zootaxa 1715: 57-68 - get paper here
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  • Idiiatullina SS, Pawangkhanant P, Tawan T, Worranuch T, Dechochai B, Suwannapoom C, Nguyen TV, Chanhome L, Poyarkov NA 2023. Limestone jewel: A new colourful karst-dwelling pitviper (Serpentes: Viperidae: Trimeresurus) from the poorly explored borderlands of southern peninsular Thailand. Vertebrate Zoology 73: 697-716 - get paper here
  • Idiiatullina, S. S., Pawangkhanant, P., Suwannapoom, C., Tawan, T., Chanhome, L., Van Nguyen, T., ... & Poyarkov, N. A. 2024. Another new species of karst-associated pitviper (Serpentes, Viperidae: Trimeresurus) from the Isthmus of Kra, Peninsular Thailand. European Journal of Taxonomy, 930, 20-52 - get paper here
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