''Trimeresurus andersonii'' is a
venomous
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pitviper
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 subfa ...
species
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endemic
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to the
Andaman Islands
The Andaman Islands () are an archipelago in the northeastern Indian Ocean about southwest off the coasts of Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Region. Together with the Nicobar Islands to their south, the Andamans serve as a maritime boundary between th ...
of
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
.
Common name
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s include: Nicobar mangrove pit viper,
[ Mehrtens JM (1987). ''Living Snakes of the World in Color''. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. .] Anderson's pitviper,
[ Gumprecht A, Tillack F, Orlov NL, ]Captain A
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, Ryabov S (2004). ''Asian Pitvipers''. First Edition. Berlin: Geitje Books. 368 pp. . and Andaman pit viper.
Etymology
The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
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In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
, ''andersonii'', is in honor of
Scottish
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*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
zoologist
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John Anderson John Anderson may refer to:
Business
*John Anderson (Scottish businessman) (1747–1820), Scottish merchant and founder of Fermoy, Ireland
* John Byers Anderson (1817–1897), American educator, military officer and railroad executive, mentor of ...
,
[Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Trimeresurus andersonii'', p. 8).] who worked in India 1864-1886 and was the first
curator
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of the
Indian Museum
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in Calcutta (now called
Kolkata
Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...
).
Geographic range
''T. andersonii'' is found only in the
Andaman Islands
The Andaman Islands () are an archipelago in the northeastern Indian Ocean about southwest off the coasts of Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Region. Together with the Nicobar Islands to their south, the Andamans serve as a maritime boundary between th ...
of
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
. The
type locality given by
Theobald Theobald is a Germanic dithematic name, composed from the elements '' theod-'' "people" and ''bald'' "bold". The name arrived in England with the Normans.
The name occurs in many spelling variations, including Theudebald, Diepold, Theobalt, Tybal ...
(1868) is "No record", which was restricted to "Andaman Islands" by
Regenass and
Kramer (1981).
References
Further reading
*
Das I (1999). "Biogeography of the amphibians and reptiles of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India". pp. 43–77. ''In:'' Ota H (editor) (1999). ''Tropical Island Herpetofauna'' ... Amsterdam: Elsevier. 353 pp. .
*
Malhotra A,
Thorpe RS (1996). "New perspectives on the evolution of south-east Asian Pit Vipers (genus ''Trimeresurus'') from molecular studies". pp. 115–128. ''In:'' Thorpe RS,
Wüster W, Malhotra A (editors) (1996).''Venomous Snakes: Ecology, Evolution and Snakebite''. Oxford, England: The Zoological Society of London / Clarendon Press. 296 pp. .
*
Smith MA (1943). ''The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. III.—Serpentes''. Secretary of State for India. (Taylor and Francis, printers.) London. xii + 583 pp. (''Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus andersoni'', pp. 521–522).
*
Theobald W (1868). "Catalogue of Reptiles in the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal". ''J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal'' 37 ("Extra Number"): vi + 7-88. (''"Trimeresurus Andersoni"'', new species, pp. 75–76).
External links
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andersonii
Reptiles of India
Fauna of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Endemic fauna of India