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RE: Taiwan

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Posted by: ratsnakehaven at Sun Jan 7 12:19:19 2007  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by ratsnakehaven ]  
   

>>Yes I was talking about thhe smooth green snake.
>>Total 6 vipers, Ovophis monticola, Trim gracilis, Trim mucrosquamatus, Trim stejnegri, Deinagkistrodon acutus, and Vipera russellii siamensis.
>> Yes the first pic is a Russels, the second is Trim gracilis the last pic is Trim mucrosqumatus.
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I was doing some research on the six viperids today and found that five are pit-vipers, Crotalinae. Only the Russell's viper is a true viper, Viperinae. The Russell's and the Deinagkistrodon I knew pretty well (didn't know they were in Taiwan), but the others were pretty new to me. I can see why there's no mamushi there. The Ovophis monticola and Trimeresurus gracilis are very much like the mamushis, Gloydius spps, in body shape. Trimeresurus stejnegeri, I believe, is one of those greenish, semi-arboreal types of pit-vipers, widespread in se. Asia. Trimeresurus mucrosquamatus has been changed to Protobothrops mucrosquamatus, in some recent literature, Biology of the Vipers (2002).

Very cool stuff. Keep up the good work.

TC


   

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