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Craspedocephalus
''Craspedocephalus'' is a genus of venomous snake, venomous pit vipers found in Asia from the Indian Subcontinent to Southeast Asia. Currently 14 species are recognized. Description Most species in the genus ''Craspedocephalus'' are relatively small, primarily arboreal species, with thin bodies and prehensility, prehensile tails. Most ''Craspedocephalus'' species are typically green in color, but some species also have yellow, black, orange, red, or gold markings. Feeding The diet of ''Craspedocephalus'' species includes a variety of animals, including lizards, amphibians, birds, rodents, and other small mammals. Species ''*) Not including the Nominotypical subspecies, nominate subspecies.'' See also * Trimeresurus References External links * * {{Taxonbar, from=Q99372871 Craspedocephalus Snake genera Taxa named by Heinrich Kuhl Taxa named by Johan Conrad van Hasselt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craspedocephalus Anamallensis
''Craspedocephalus'' is a genus of venomous snake, venomous pit vipers found in Asia from the Indian Subcontinent to Southeast Asia. Currently 14 species are recognized. Description Most species in the genus ''Craspedocephalus'' are relatively small, primarily arboreal species, with thin bodies and prehensility, prehensile tails. Most ''Craspedocephalus'' species are typically green in color, but some species also have yellow, black, orange, red, or gold markings. Feeding The diet of ''Craspedocephalus'' species includes a variety of animals, including lizards, amphibians, birds, rodents, and other small mammals. Species ''*) Not including the Nominotypical subspecies, nominate subspecies.'' See also * Trimeresurus References External links * * {{Taxonbar, from=Q99372871 Craspedocephalus Snake genera Taxa named by Heinrich Kuhl Taxa named by Johan Conrad van Hasselt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craspedocephalus Brongersmai
''Craspedocephalus brongersmai'', also known commonly as Brongersma's pit viper, Gumprecht A, Tillack F, Orlov NL, Captain A, Ryabov S (2004). ''Asian Pitvipers''. First Edition. Berlin: GeitjeBooks. 368 pp. . is a species of venomous snake in the subfamily Crotalinae of the family Viperidae. The species is native to islands off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. No subspecies are currently recognized. Etymology The specific name, ''brongersmai'', is in honor of Dutch herpetologist Leo Brongersma. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Trimeresurus brongersmai'', p. 39). Description Scalation of ''C. brongersmai'' includes 19 (or 21) rows of dorsal scales at midbody, 136-150 ventral scales, 41-48 divided subcaudal scales, and 9-10 supralabial scales. Geographic range ''Craspedocephalus brongersmai'' is found in Indonesia, on the Mentawai islands of Siberut and Sim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craspedocephalus Borneensis
''Craspedocephalus borneensis'', commonly known as the Bornean pit viper,Gumprecht A, Tillack F, Orlov NL, Captain A, Ryabov S. 2004. ''Asian Pit vipers''. GeitjeBooks Berlin. 1st Edition. 368 pp. . is a venomous pit viper species endemic to the island of Borneo. No subspecies are currently recognized. Description Scalation includes 19–21 rows of dorsal scales at midbody, 152–180 ventral scales, undivided anal scale, 45–58 divided subcaudal scales, and 8–11 supralabial scales. Its coloration varies. Individuals may be brown with darker brown saddles, or light brown with a few darker markings, or even bright yellow with darker markings. Adults may attain in snout-vent length (SVL).Das, Indraneil. 2006. ''A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Borneo''. Ralph Curtis Books. Sanibel Island, Florida. 144 pp. . (''Trimeresurus borneensis'', p. 57.) Geographic range ''Craspedocephalus borneensis'' is found on the island of Borneo (Brunei, Kalimantan, Saba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craspedocephalus Gramineus
''Craspedocephalus gramineus'', known as the bamboo pit viper, Indian green pit viper, or common green pit viper, is a venomous pit viper species found in the southern and north eastern parts of India. No subspecies are currently recognized. Description The rostral scale is as deep as broad or broader than deep. The upper head-scales are small, smooth, imbricate; supraocular scale narrow, rarely broken up. The internasals are contact or separated by one or two scales. There are 8 to 13 scales on a line between the supraoculars; usually one or two, rarely three, series of scales between the suboculars and the labials; 9 to 12 upper labials, second usually forming the anterior border of the loreal pit, third largest; temporal scales smooth. The dorsal scales are more or less distinctly keeled, in 21 (rarely 19 or 23) rows; ventrals 145–175; anal scale entire; subcaudals in two rows 53–76. The upper parts are usually bright green, rarely yellowish, greyish, or purplish br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craspedocephalus Andalasensis
''Craspedocephalus andalasensis'', commonly known as the Sumatran palm pit viper, is a venomous pitviper species native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Geographic range ''C. andalasensis'' is known from North Sumatra and West Sumatra West Sumatra ( id, Sumatra Barat) is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the west coast of the island of Sumatra and includes the Mentawai Islands off that coast. The province has an area of , with a population of 5,534,472 at the 2020 cen .... Though known from a few specimens only, it is likely to be widespread in Sumatra. Habitat and conservation ''C. andalasensis'' occurs in wet montane forests at elevations of above sea level. Although it is negatively impacted by deforestation, it is believed to be widespread enough to not be threatened overall. ''C. andalasensis'' occurs in the Mount Leuser National Park. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q5073248 andalasensis Snakes of Asia Reptiles of Indonesia Endemic fauna of Sumatr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trimeresurus Gramineus Cropped
''Trimeresurus'' is a genus of venomous pit vipers found in Asia from the Indian Subcontinent throughout Southeast Asia, China, and the Pacific Islands. Currently 44 species are recognized. Common names include Asian palm pit vipers,Mehrtens JM (1987). ''Living Snakes of the World in Color''. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. . Asian lanceheads, and green pit vipers.United States Navy (1991). ''Poisonous Snakes of the World''. New York: U.S. Government / Dover Publications Inc. 203 pp. . Description Most species in the genus ''Trimeresurus'' are relatively small, primarily arboreal species, with thin bodies and prehensile tails. Most ''Trimeresurus'' species are typically green in color, but some species also have yellow, black, orange, red, or gold markings. Feeding The diet of ''Trimeresurus'' species includes a variety of animals, including lizards, amphibians, birds, rodents, and other small mammals. Reproduction Like most viper species, many of the species in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pit Viper
The Crotalinae, commonly known as pit vipers,Mehrtens JM (1987). ''Living Snakes of the World in Color''. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. . crotaline snakes (from grc, κρόταλον ''krotalon'' castanet), or pit adders, are a subfamily of vipers found in Eurasia and the Americas. Like all other vipers, they are venomous. They are distinguished by the presence of a heat-sensing pit organ located between the eye and the nostril on both sides of the head. Currently, 23 genera and 155 species are recognized: These are also the only viperids found in the Americas. The groups of snakes represented here include rattlesnakes, lanceheads, and Asian pit vipers. The type genus for this subfamily is ''Crotalus'', of which the type species is the timber rattlesnake, ''C. horridus''. These snakes range in size from the diminutive hump-nosed viper, ''Hypnale hypnale'', that grows to a typical total length (including tail) of only , to the bushmaster, ''Lachesis muta'', a specie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borneo
Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and east of Sumatra. The island is politically divided among three countries: Malaysia and Brunei in the north, and Indonesia to the south. Approximately 73% of the island is Indonesian territory. In the north, the East Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak make up about 26% of the island. The population in Borneo is 23,053,723 (2020 national censuses). Additionally, the Malaysian federal territory of Labuan is situated on a small island just off the coast of Borneo. The sovereign state of Brunei, located on the north coast, comprises about 1% of Borneo's land area. A little more than half of the island is in the Northern Hemisphere, including Brunei and the Malaysian portion, while the Indonesian portion spans the Northern and Southern hemisph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Peters
Wilhelm Karl Hartwich (or Hartwig) Peters (22 April 1815 in Koldenbüttel – 20 April 1883) was a German natural history, naturalist and explorer. He was assistant to the anatomist Johannes Peter Müller and later became curator of the Natural History Museum, Berlin, Berlin Zoological Museum. Encouraged by Müller and the explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Peters travelled to Mozambique via Angola in September 1842, exploring the coastal region and the Zambesi River. He returned to Berlin with an enormous collection of natural history specimens, which he then described in ''Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique... in den Jahren 1842 bis 1848 ausgeführt'' (1852–1882). The work was comprehensive in its coverage, dealing with mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, river fish, insects and botany. He replaced Martin Lichtenstein as curator of the museum in 1858, and in the same year he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In a few years, he g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sumatra
Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent islands such as the Simeulue, Nias, Mentawai, Enggano, Riau Islands, Bangka Belitung and Krakatoa archipelago. Sumatra is an elongated landmass spanning a diagonal northwest–southeast axis. The Indian Ocean borders the northwest, west, and southwest coasts of Sumatra, with the island chain of Simeulue, Nias, Mentawai, and Enggano off the western coast. In the northeast, the narrow Strait of Malacca separates the island from the Malay Peninsula, which is an extension of the Eurasian continent. In the southeast, the narrow Sunda Strait, containing the Krakatoa Archipelago, separates Sumatra from Java. The northern tip of Sumatra is near the Andaman Islands, while off the southeastern coast lie the islands of Bangka and Belitung, Karim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
