Taxonavigation
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Viperidae
Subfamilia: Crotalinae
Genus: Craspedocephalus
Species: Craspedocephalus macrolepis
Name
Craspedocephalus macrolepis (Beddome, 1862)
- Lectotype: BMNH 1946.1.18.72 (formerly 1861.12.30.80), ♂, collected by R.H. Beddome between 1857–1862. [designated by Toriba in Golay et al. (1993: 101)]
- Type locality: “Anamallay mountains at 6000 ft and Pulney Hills at 4000 ft”, restricted by lectotype designation to “Anaimallai Hills, India” by Toriba in Golay et al. (1993: 101).
- Paralectotypes (n=2): BMNH 1946.1.17.75 and BMNH 1946.1.18.83, same data as the lectotype.
Combinations
- Trimeresurus macrolepis Beddome, 1862: 2 [original combination]
- Peltopelor macrolepis — Günther, 1864: 391 [subsequent combination]
- Trigonocephalus macrolepis — Ferguson, 1895: 77 [subsequent combination]
- Lachesis macrolepis — Boulenger, 1896: 560 [subsequent combination]
- Trimeresurus (Peltopelor) macrolepis — David, Vogel & Dubois, 2011 [subsequent combination]
- Craspedocephalus macrolepis — Mallik et al., 2021: 582 [subsequent combination]
References
Primary references
- Beddome, R.H. 1862. Notes upon the land and freshwater snakes of the Madras Presidency. Madras Quarterly Journal of Medical Science 5: 1–31. Reference page.
- Günther, A.C.L.G. 1864. The Reptiles of British India. Ray Society: London. xxvii + 452 pp. BHL Reference page.
- Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III. Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ), Amblycephalidæ, and Viperidæ. British Museum (Natural History): London. xiv + 727 pp. BHL Reference page.
- David, P., Vogel, G. & Dubois, A. 2011. On the need to follow rigorously the Rules of the Code for the subsequent designation of a nucleospecies (type species) for a nominal genus which lacked one: the case of the nominal genus Trimeresurus Lacépède, 1804 (Reptilia: Squamata: Viperidae). Zootaxa 2992: 1–51. Preview PDF. Reference page.
- Mallik, A.K., Srikanthan, A.N., Ganesh, S.R., Vijayakumar, S.P., Campbell, P.D., Malhotra, A. & Shanker, K. 2021. Resolving pitfalls in pit viper systematics – A multi-criteria approach to species delimitation in pit vipers (Reptilia, Viperidae, Craspedocephalus) of Peninsular India reveals cryptic diversity. Vertebrate Zoology 71: 577–619. DOI: 10.3897/vz.71.e66239
Reference page.
Additional references
- Malhotra, A. & Thorpe, R.S. 2004. A phylogeny of four mitochondrial gene regions suggests a revised taxonomy for Asian pitvipers (Trimeresurus and Ovophis). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 32(1): 83–100. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2004.02.008
Reference page. - Wallach, V., Williams, K.L. & Boundy, J. 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group: Boca Raton, Florida. 1237 pp. ISBN 9781138034006 Reference page.
- Boundy, J. 2021. Snakes of the World: A Supplement. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group: Boca Raton, Florida. 273 pp. ISBN 9781138618138 ebook Reference page.
Links
- Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2022. Craspedocephalus macrolepis. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 14 November 2022.
- Srinivasulu, C., Srinivasulu, B., Deepak, V., Shankar, G. & Das, A. 2013. IUCN: Peltopelor macrolepis (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T172623A1354137. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T172623A1354137.en. Accessed on 14 November 2022.
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