The pitviper is inexperienced in coloration and sports activities a whitish stomach and a white stripe that seems alongside the final row of scales earlier than the stomach.
Researchers Gernot Vogel (College of Heidelberg), Tan Van Nguyen (Duy Tan College, Vietnam) and Patrick David (Muséum Nationwide d’Histoire Naturelle) have found and described a brand new inexperienced pitviper species of the Trimeresurus albolabris complicated of the genus Trimeresurus Lacépède, 1804. The venomous snake hails from central and southern Myanmar (previously Burma) and is described as a brand new species based mostly on “molecular evaluation from beforehand printed phylogenies and new morphological knowledge,” the researchers wrote in an summary describing the brand new species.
Trimeresurus uetzi sp. nov. in preservative, specimen CAS 243024, Holotype, male. A. Common dorsal view. – B. Common ventral view. – C. Lateral view of the pinnacle, proper facet. – D. Lateral view of the pinnacle, left facet. – E. Dorsal view of the pinnacle. – F. Ventral view of the pinnacle. – G. Ventral view of the tail with the everted hemipenes. – H. Dorsal view of the bottom of the tail. Pictures by G. Vogel.
Trimeresurus uetzi sp. nov. shares some similarities with Trimeresurus albolabris and T. septentrionalis. It differs from these two venomous snakes in that the males possess white pre- and put up ocular streaks, copper coloured irises within the male and inexperienced gold irises within the feminine. Each sexes additionally function extra ventral plates, and within the case of the males, a shorter hemipenis than that of each Trimeresurus albolabris and T. septentrionalis.
Lateral view of the pinnacle, proper & left facet, respectively of the Trimeresurus uetzi sp. nov. in preservative: A. Specimen CAS 232480 (paratype, male); B. Specimen CAS 243055 (paratype, male); C. Specimen CAS 242723 (male); D. Specimen CAS 210109 (paratype, feminine); E. Specimen CAS 215472 (paratype, feminine); F. Specimen CAS 215540 (paratype, feminine). Pictures by G. Vogel.
The pitviper is inexperienced in coloration and sports activities a whitish stomach and a white stripe that seems alongside the final row of scales earlier than the stomach. Males have copper coloured irises and females have inexperienced and gold irises.
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An summary of the paper, “A brand new inexperienced pitviper of the Trimeresurus albolabris complicated (Reptilia, Serpentes, Viperidae) from central and southern Myanmar” might be learn on the Zootaxa web site.
