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249. Trimeresurus medoensis  Mystery Cache

Hidden : 12/13/2021
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Geocache Description:


Higher Taxa Viperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies  
Common Names E: Green Bamboo Leaf Pit Viper, Motuo bamboo pitviper
Chinese: 墨脱竹叶青蛇 
Synonym Trimeresurus medoensis ZHAO 1977
Trimeresurus medoensis — WELCH 1994: 115
Trimeresurus medoensis — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 339
Trimeresurus medoensis — LEVITON et al. 2003
Trimeresurus medoensis — GUMPRECHT et al. 2004
Viridovipera medoensis — MALHOTRA & THORPE 2004
Viridovipera medoensis — DAWSON et al. 2008
Trimeresurus (Viridovipera) medoensis — DAVID et al. 2011
Viridovipera medoensis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 790
Viridovipera medoensis — GUO et al. 2018 
Distribution N Myanmar (= Burma), E India,
W China (SE Xizang = Tibet)

Type locality: near Ani Bridge, Motuo, Xizang, at 1200 m elevation.  
Reproduction viviparous 
Types Holotype: CIB 73-II-5208 
Diagnosis DIAGNOSIS (DIAGNOSTIC CHARACTERS).— Scales in 17 longitudinal rows at midbody, dorsal rows 7–11 slightly keeled; 8 upper labials, first upper labials separated from nasals by a distinct suture; green or bluish green above, yellowish white below, the two separated by a bright bicolored red (below) and white (above) ventrolateral stripe (in both males and females), which occupies the whole of the outermost scale row and a portion of the second row; ventrals less than 150; hemipenes short, thick, spinose. Total length males 671 mm, females 650; tail length males 125 mm, females 115 mm. [after LEVITON 2003]
 
Comment Venomous!

Authors are listed as “DJAO in DJAO & JIANG 1977” in WELCH 1994.

Distribution: Possibly in Bhutan (Lenz 2012).

Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 

 

Handicaching code for 1 T-rated geocaches: H14232 (This is the absolute worst case.)

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