Trimeresurus cantori
| Cantor's Pit Viper | |
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| Species: | T. cantori
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| Trimeresurus cantori (Blyth, 1846)
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Cantor's Pit Viper Trimeresurus cantori is a species of snake. Named after Theodore E. Cantor (1809 - 1860), Danish naturalist serving as a surgeon with the East India Company in Calcutta.
Distribution: India (Nicobar Island) Type locality: Nicobar Islands.
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References
- Blyth, E. 1846 J. Asiat. Soc. Beng., 15: 377
- Das, I. 1999 Biogeography of the amphibians and reptiles of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. In: Ota,H. (ed) Tropical Island herpetofauna.., Elsevier, pp. 43-77
- Gumprecht, A.; Tillack, F.; Orlov, N.L.; Captain, A. & Ryabow, S. 2004 Asian Pit Vipers. Geitje Books, Berlin, 368 pp.
- Parkinson,C.L. 1999 Molecular systematics and biogeographical history of Pit Vipers as determined by mitochondrial ribosomal DNA sequences. Copeia 1999 (3): 576-586
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