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Trimeresurus schultzei GRIFFIN, 1909

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Higher TaxaViperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Schultze's Pit Viper 
SynonymTrimeresurus schultzei GRIFFIN 1909
Trimeresurus schultzei — WELCH 1994: 117
Trimeresurus schultzei — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 344
Trimeresurus schultzei — GUMPRECHT et al. 2004
Parias schultzei — MALHOTRA & THORPE 2004
Trimeresurus (Parias) schultzei — DAVID et al. 2011
Parias schultzei — WALLACH et al. 2014: 538
Parias schultzei — GUO et al. 2018
Trimeresurus (Parias) schultzei — MIRZA et al. 2023 
DistributionPhilippines (Palawan, Balabac)

Type locality: Iwahig, Palawan.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: lost (fide LEVITON 1964) 
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CommentVenomous!

Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Leonhard Schultze-Jena (1872-1955), a German geographer, zoologist, botanist, philologist, and ethnographer. He was Professor of Geography at Philipps-Universität Marburg (1913-1937) who travelled to New Guinea and Central America. 
References
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  • Binaday, J. W. B., Sarmiento, M. J. R., Tupas, J. M., Corvera, M. D., Tabayag, E. A., Cruz, R. M., & Manalo, R. I. 2024. Species Account of Amphibians and Reptiles in the Eastern Slope of Mt. Bulanjao Mountain Range, Southern Palawan, the Philippines, with a New Geographic Range for the Palawan Eastern Frog Alcalus mariae (Inger, 1954). Philippine Journal of Science, 153(6B), 2253-2271 - 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
  • Griffin, L.E. 1909. A list of snakes found in Palawan. Philippine Journal of Science 4: 595-601 - get paper here
  • Gumprecht, A.; Tillack, F.; Orlov, N.L.; Captain, A. & Ryabow, S. 2004. Asian pitvipers. Geitje Books, Berlin, 368 pp.
  • Gumprecht,A. 2001. Das Portrait: Trimeresurus schultzei GRIFFIN. Sauria 23 (2): 2 - get paper here
  • Guo, Peng; Qin Liu, Guanghui Zhong, Fei Zhu, Fang Yan, Ting Tang, Rong Xiao, Min Fang, Ping Wang and Xin Fu 2015. Cryptic diversity of green pitvipers in Yunnan, South-west China (Squamata, Viperidae). Amphibia-Reptilia 36 (3): 265 - 276 - 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
  • Leviton, A.E. 1964. Contributions to a review of Philippine snakes. V. The snakes of the genus Trimeresurus. Philippine J. Sci. 93: 251-276 - get paper here
  • Leviton, A.E., R.M. Brown, and C.D. Siler. 2014. The dangerously venomous snakes of the Philippine Archipelago. in The Coral Triangle: The 2011 Hearst Biodiversity Philippine Expedition (G.C. Williams and T.M. Gosliner, eds.). California Academy of Sciences, USA, Pp 473–530
  • 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
  • McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp.
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