Trimeresurus brongersmai

Trimeresurus brongersmai, or Brongersma's pit viper,[4] is a venomous pit viper species endemic to the Indonesian island of Simalur. No subspecies are currently recognized.[5]

Trimeresurus brongersmai
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Viperidae
Genus: Trimeresurus
Species:
T. brongersmai
Binomial name
Trimeresurus brongersmai
Hoge, 1969
Synonyms
  • Trimeresurus brongersmai Hoge, 1969[2]
  • Trimeresurus (Craspedocephalus) brongersmai
    — David et al., 2011[3]

Etymology

The specific name, brongersmai, is in honor of Dutch herpetologist Leo Brongersma.[6]

Description

Scalation of T. 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.[4]

Geographic range

Trimeresurus brongersmai is found in Indonesia on the island of Simalur.

The type locality given is "Lugu, Simalur, Sumatra" (Lugu, Simalur Island off west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia).[2]

References
  1. Vogel G, Iskandar D (2012). "Trimeresurus brongersmai ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012: e.T178541A1538501. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T178541A1538501.en.
  2. McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  3. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org
  4. Gumprecht A, Tillack F, Orlov NL, Captain A, Ryabov S (2004). Asian Pitvipers. First Edition. Berlin: GeitjeBooks. 368 pp. ISBN 3-937975-00-4.
  5. "Trimeresurus brongersmai ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 28 July 2008.
  6. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michel; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Trimeresurus brongersmai, p. 39).

Further reading
  • David P, Vogel G, Dubois A (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.
  • Hoge AR (1969). "Um novo Trimeresurus de Simalur, Sumatra (Serpentes: Viperidae)". Ciência e Cultura, São Paulo 21 (2): 459–460. (Trimeresurus brongersmai, new species). (in Portuguese).


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