Trimeresurus - Taxonomy

Taxonomy

Species that may be recognized by other sources include:

• T. andersonii . Commonly called Anderson's pit viper, found in the Andaman Islands of India.
• T. barati . Commonly called Barat's bamboo viper, found in Indonesia.
• T. fucatus . Commonly called the Siamese peninsula pit viper and found in southern Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia.
• T. gumprechti . Commonly called Gumprecht's green pit viper and found in northeastern Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China and Myanmar.
• T. insularis . Commonly called the white-lipped island pit viper and found in Indonesia.
• T. malcolmi . Commonly called Malcolm's pit viper and found on Borneo (Indonesia).
• T. nebularis . Commonly called the Cameron Highlands pit viper and found in West Malaysia (Cameron Highlands).
• T. sabahi . Commonly called Sabah's bamboo viper and found on Borneo, Indonesia.
• T. truongsonensis . Found in central Vietnam.
• T. venustus . Commonly called the beautiful pit viper and found in southern Thailand.
• T. vogeli . Commonly called Vogel's pit viper and found in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

The genus Trimeresurus sensu lato has been the subject of considerable taxonomic work since 2000, resulting in the recognition of additional genera within this complex. Most authors now recognise the genus Protobothrops for the species cornutus, flavoviridis, jerdonii, kaulbacki, mucrosquamatus, tokarensis, xiangchengensis, since these have been shown not to be closely related to other Trimeresurus in recent phylogenetic analyses.

Malhotra and Thorpe (2004) proposed a radical shake up of the entire genus, splitting Trimeresurus into seven genera. Their proposed arrangement (including species described since 2004) is shown in the table below:

This new arrangement has been followed by many, but not all subsequent authors.