Trimeresurus cantori

Trimeresurus cantori
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Viperidae
Genus: Trimeresurus
Species:
T. cantori
Binomial name
Trimeresurus cantori
(Blyth, 1846)
Synonyms
  • Trigonocephalus Cantori
    Blyth, 1846
  • Trimesurus viridis var. Cantori
    — Blyth, 1861
  • Trim[eresurus]. Cantori
    — Stoliczka, 1870
  • Trimeresurus Cantoris
    Stoliczka, 1870
  • Lachesis cantoris
    — Boulenger, 1896
  • Trimeresurus cantori
    — M.A. Smith, 1943[2]
  • Cryptelytrops cantori
    — Malhotra & Thorpe, 2004
  • Trimeresurus (Trimeresurus) cantori
    — David et al., 2011[3]

Trimeresurus cantori, commonly known as Cantor's pit viper[4] or Cantor's pitviper,[5] is a species of venomous snake, a pit viper in the Subfamily Crotalinae of the family Viperidae. The species is endemic to the Nicobar Islands of India.[6] It was named after Theodore Edward Cantor (1809-1860), a Danish naturalist serving as a surgeon with the East India Company in Calcutta.[7] No subspecies are recognized as being valid.[6]

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  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).
  3. ^ Species Trimeresurus cantori at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  4. ^ Brown, John Haynes (1973). Toxicology and Pharmacology of Venoms from Poisonous Snakes. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas. 184 pp. LCCCN 73-229. ISBN 0-398-02808-7.
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  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 cantori, p. 47).