Species of Thailand
Mangrove pit viper
Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus
(John Edward Gray, 1832)
In Thai: งูพังกา, ngu phang gaa
Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus is a venomous pit viper species native to India, Bangladesh and Southeast Asia. Common names include: mangrove pit viper, mangrove viper, and shore pit viper.
Description
Males grow to a total length of 66.5 cm, females 90 cm. The maximum tail lengths are then 12.5 cm and 14 cm respectively.
Scales in 25-27 longitudinal rows at midbody; 11-13 upper labials, the first partially or completely united with the nasal; supraocular very narrow, sometimes broken into small scales, 12-15 scales between them; head scales small, subequal, tuberculate or granular; temporal scales keeled.
Body color highly variable: above olive, grayish, to dark purplish brown; below whitish, greenish or brown, uniform or spotted with brown; a light line on scale row one bordering ventrals present or absent; head olive, heavily suffused with brown.
Ventrals: males 160-179, females 168-183; subcaudals: males 74-76, females 56-63, paired; hemipenes without spines.
Common names
Mangrove pit viper, mangrove viper, shore pit viper, purple-spotted pit viper, shore pitviper.
Geographic range
Found in Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, West Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia (Sumatra and Java). The type locality is listed as "Singapore".
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Scientific classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Subphylum
- Vertebrata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Suborder
- Serpentes
- Family
- Viperidae
- Genus
- Trimeresurus
- Species
- Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus
Common names
- German: Mangrovenotter
- English:
- Shore pit viper
- Mangrove biper
- Thai:
- งูพังกา, ngu phang gaa
- งูเขียวหางไหม้ลายเสือ, ngu khieow hang mai lai seua
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN3.1)
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Range Map
- Ao Phang-Nga National Park
- Kantang District, Trang
- Khura Buri District, Phang Nga
- Ko Bulon Le
- Ko Chang (South Thailand)
- Ko Lanta District, Krabi
- Ko Lanta National Park
- Ko Ngai
- Ko Phayam
- Kra Buri District, Ranong
- Lam Nam Kra Buri National Park
- Mueang Krabi District, Krabi
- Mueang Satun District, Satun
- Phi Phi Islands
- Ranong Coast
- Surin Islands
- Takua Pa District, Phang Nga
- Thai Mueang District, Phang Nga
- Thalang District, Phuket
- Thung Wa District, Satun