Trimeresurus hageni

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Trimeresurus hageni
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Viperidae
Genus: Trimeresurus
Species:
T. hageni
Binomial name
Trimeresurus hageni
Synonyms [2]
  • Bothrops Hageni
    Lidth de Jeude, 1886
  • Lachesis sumatranus (part)
    Boulenger, 1896
  • Trimeresurus hageni
    Brongersma, 1933 [3]
  • Parias hageni
    Malhotra & Thorpe, 2004
  • Trimeresurus (Parias) hageni
    David et al., 2011

Trimeresurus hageni, commonly known as Hagen's pit viper [4] and Hagen's green pit viper, [1] is a species of venomous snake in the subfamily Crotalinae of the family Viperidae. The species is native to Southeast Asia. There are no subspecies that are recognized as being valid. [5]

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Etymology

The specific name, hageni, is in honor of German naturalist Dr. Bernhard Hagen, who collected mammals, birds, reptiles, and insects in the eastern part of Sumatra. [6] [7]

Description

Specimen in Bang Lang National Park. Trimeresurus hageni, Hagen's pit viper (male) - Bang Lang National Park (50217234436).jpg
Specimen in Bang Lang National Park.

Scalation of T. hageni includes 21 rows of dorsal scales at midbody, 176–198 ventral scales, 63–89 subcaudal scales, and 9–12 supralabial scales. [4]

Geographic range

T. hageni is found in Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, East Malaysia (Borneo), and Indonesia (Sumatra and the nearby islands of Bangka, Simalur, Nias, Batu, and the Mentawai Islands).

The type locality given is "Sumatra ... [and] island of Banka". Brongersma (1933) emended this to "Deli, Sumatra". [3]

Reproduction

T. hageni is oviparous. [2]

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References

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  2. 1 2 Species Trimeresurus hageni at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  3. 1 2 McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (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).
  4. 1 2 Gumprecht A, Tillack F, Orlov NL, Captain A, Ryabov S (2004). Asian Pit vipers. Berlin: GeitjeBooks. 1st Edition. 368 pp. ISBN   3-937975-00-4.
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  6. Jentink FA (1888). "On a Collection of Mammals from East-Sumatra". Notes from the Leyden Museum11 (6):17–30.
  7. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN   978-1-4214-0135-5. (Trimeresurus hageni, pp. 113-114).

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