Trimeresurus erythrurus

Species of snake

Trimeresurus erythrurus

Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Reptilia
Order:  | Squamata
Suborder:  | Serpentes
Family:  | Viperidae
Genus:  | Trimeresurus
Species:  |

T. erythrurus

Binomial name
Trimeresurus erythrurus

(Cantor, 1839)

Synonyms

* Trigonocephalus erythrurus
Cantor, 1839
* Trimesurus bicolor Gray, 1853
* Trimeresurus erythrurus
– Günther, 1864
* Crotalus Trimeres[urus]. erythrurus – Higgins, 1873
* T[rimeresurus]. erythrurus
– Theobald, 1876[1]
* Cryptelytrops erythrurus
– Malhotra & Thorpe, 2004
* Trimeresurus (Trimeresurus) erythrurus – David et al., 2011[2]

Trimeresurus erythrurus, commonly known as the red-tailed bamboo pitviper,[3] redtail bamboo pit viper, and redtail pit viper is a venomous pit viper species found in South Asia and Myanmar. No subspecies are currently recognized.[2]

## Description

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Males grow to a maximum total length 575 millimetres (22.6 in), of which the tail is 120 millimetres (4.7 in) in length. Females reach a maximum total length of 1,045 millimetres (41.1 in), with a tail length of 165 millimetres (6.5 in).[4]

Scalation: dorsal scales in 23–25 longitudinal rows at midbody; first upper labial partially or completely fused to nasal; 9–13 upper labials, 1–2 rows of scales separate upper labials from the suboculars; 11–14 scales in a line between supraoculars; supraoculars rarely divided; temporal scales small, strongly keeled; ventral scales: males 153–174, females: 151–180; subcaudals: males 62–79, females 49–61, usually paired, occasionally unpaired shields present among paired series.[4]

Color pattern: head uniform green, dorsum bright green, light ventrolateral stripe present in males, present or absent in females (Maslin [1942:23] says that the ventrolateral stripe is absent, but M.A. Smith [1943:523] states that it is present in males and variable in females), tail spotted with brown; hemipenes without spines.[4]

## Geographic range

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Found in eastern India (Assam, Sikkim, Manipur), Bangladesh, Myanmar, Bhutan, and Nepal.[2] The original type locality given was as "Delta Gangeticum" (Ganges Delta, West Bengal State, eastern India). The type locality given by Boulenger (1896) is "Ganges Delta."[1]

## References

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1. ^ a b McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
2. ^ a b c Trimeresurus erythrurus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 16 November 2020.
3. ^ Gumprecht A, Tillack F, Orlov NL, Captain A, Ryabov S. 2004. Asian Pitvipers. GeitjeBooks. Berlin. 1st Edition. 368 pp. ISBN 3-937975-00-4.
4. ^ a b c Leviton, A.E.; Wogan, G.O.U.; Koo, M.S.; Zug, G.R.; Lucas, R.S. & Vindum, J.V. (2003). "The dangerously venomous snakes of Myanmar. Illustrated checklist with keys" (PDF). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 54 (24): 407–462.

## Further reading

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* Cantor, T.E. 1839\. Spicilegium serpentium indicorum [parts 1 and 2]. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 7: 31–34, 49–55.
* Cantor, T.E. 1840. Spicilegium Serpentium Indicorum. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (1) 4: 271–279.
* Gumprecht, A. 2001. Die Bambusottern der Gattung Trimeresurus Lacépède Teil IV: Checkliste der Trimeresurus-Arten Thailands. Sauria 23 (2): 25–32.
* Maslin, T. Paul. 1942. Evidence for the Separation of the Crotalid Genera Trimeresurus and Bothrops, with a Key to the Genus Trimeresurus. Copeia 1942 (1): 18–24.
* Smith, M.A. 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 erythrurus, pp. 522–523.)
* Toriba, Michihisa. 1994. Karyotype of Trimeresurus erythrurus. Snake 26 (2): 141–143.

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Snakes in the genus Trimeresurus

* Trimeresurus albolabris
* Trimeresurus borneensis
* Trimeresurus brongersmai
* Trimeresurus cantori
* Trimeresurus erythrurus
* Trimeresurus fasciatus
* Trimeresurus flavomaculatus
* Trimeresurus gracilis
* Trimeresurus gramineus
* Trimeresurus hageni
* Trimeresurus kanburiensis
* Trimeresurus karanshahi
* Trimeresurus labialis
* Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus
* Trimeresurus salazar
* Trimeresurus stejnegeri
* Trimeresurus sumatranus
* Trimeresurus tibetanus
* Trimeresurus trigonocephalus

Taxon identifiers

Trimeresurus erythrurus|

* Wikidata: Q3010245
* Wikispecies: Trimeresurus erythrurus
* ADW: Trimeresurus_erythrurus
* CoL: 7CTNR
* EoL: 461445
* GBIF: 2444110
* iNaturalist: 146507
* ITIS: 634910
* IUCN: 178732
* NCBI: 109779
* Open Tree of Life: 184465
* RD: erythrurus

Trigonocephalus erythrurus|

* Wikidata: Q28320220
* IRMNG: 10518736
* ITIS: 1058677

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