Genus of snakes
Calloselasma
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Scientific classification
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Domain:
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Eukaryota
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Kingdom:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Chordata
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Class:
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Reptilia
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Order:
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Squamata
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Suborder:
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Serpentes
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Family:
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Viperidae
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Subfamily:
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Crotalinae
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Genus:
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Calloselasma Cope, 1860
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Species:
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C. rhodostoma
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Binomial name
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Calloselasma rhodostoma
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Synonyms
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- [Trigonocephalus] rhodostoma Kuhl, 1824
- [Trigonocephalus] rhodostoma
– F. Boie, 1827
- [Trigonocephalus] praetextatus Gravenhorst, 1832
- Tisiphone rhodostoma
– Fitzinger, 1843
- L[eiolepis]. rhodostoma
– A.M.C. Duméril, 1853
- [Calloselasma] rhodostomus
– Cope, 1860
- T[isiphone]. rhodostoma
– W. Peters, 1862
- T[rigonocephalus]. (Tisiphone) rhodostoma
– Jan, 1863
- Calloselasma rhodostoma
– Günther, 1864
- Calloselma rhodostoma
– Morice, 1875
- Ancistrodon rhodostoma
– Boettger, 1892
- Ancistrodon rhodostoma
– Boulenger, 1896
- Agkistrodon rhodostoma
– Barbour, 1912
- Ancistrodon (Calloselasma) rhodostoma – Bourret, 1927
- Ancistrodon annamensis
Angel, 1933
- [Agkistrodon] annamensis
– Pope, 1935
- Calloselasma rhodostoma
– Campden-Main, 1970[2]
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- Common names: Malayan ground pit viper, Malayan pit viper, Malayan ground snake, Malayan moccasin.
Calloselasma is a monotypic genus[3] created for a pit viper species, Calloselasma rhodostoma, which is endemic to Southeast Asia from Thailand to northern Malaysia and on the island of Java.[2] No subspecies are currently recognized.[4]