Trimeresurus mcgregori
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Trimeresurus mcgregori, commonly known as McGregor's pit viper[1] or the Batanes pit viper, is a species of venomous snake in the subfamily Crotalinae of the family Viperidae.[2][1] The species is endemic to the Philippines.
Etymology
The specific name, mcgregori, is in honor of Australian-American ornithologist Richard Crittenden McGregor (1871–1936), who collected the type specimen,[3] and survived its bite.[4]
Description
The scalation of T. mcgregori includes 21 (23) rows of dorsal scales at midbody, 170-172/173-178 (or 169-172/168-178) ventral scales in males/females, 62-66/58-60 (or 63-69/56-62) subcaudal scales in males/females, and 10–11 supralabial scales.[1]
Geographic range
T. mcgregori is found in the Philippines on the Batanes Islands. The type locality given is "Batan Island, Batanes Group, (lying between Luzon and Formosa)" (Philippine Islands).[5]
Habitat
The preferred natural habitats of T. mcgregori are forest and shrubland, at altitudes from sea level to Template:Cvt, but it has also been found in agricultural areas.[6]
Taxonomy
T. mcgregori was originally described as a new species by E.H. Taylor in 1919.[7] It was considered to be a subspecies of T. flavomaculatus by Alan E. Leviton (1961).[5] It was re-elevated to a full species by Andreas Gumprecht (2001, 2002).[1]
References
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- ↑ a b c d Gumprecht A, Tillack F, Orlov NL, Captain A, Ryabov S (2004). Asian Pitvipers. First Edition. Berlin: GeitjeBooks. 368 pp. Template:ISBN
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- ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. Template:ISBN. (Trimeresurus mcgregori, p. 173).
- ↑ Taylor (1919), p. 112.
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Further reading
- Gumprecht A (2002). "Die Bambusottern der Gattung Trimeresurus Lacépède Tiel V: Die philippinischen Bambusottern des Trimeresurus flavomaculatus-Komplexes II. Die Batanes-Bambusotter Trimeresurus mcgregori Taylor, 1919 ". Sauria 24 (3): 31–44. (in German).
- Sweeney, Roger (1994). "McGregor's pit viper, Trimeresurus flavomaculatus mcgregori ". Herptile: Journal of the International Herpetological Society 19 (2): 86–88.
- Taylor EH (1919). "New or rare Philippine reptiles". Philippine Journal of Science 14: 105–125. (Trimeresurus mcgregori, new species, pp. 110–112.)
- Weinell JL, Hooper E, Leviton AE, Brown RM (2019). "Illustrated Key to the Snakes of the Philippines". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series 66 (1): 1–49.
External links
- Trimeresurus mcgregori at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 12 August 2008.