Trimeresurus mcgregori

Trimeresurus mcgregori, commonly known as the McGregor's pit viper[4] or the Batanes pit viper, is a venomous pitviper subspecies[5] [4] endemic to the Philippines.

Trimeresurus mcgregori
Captive bred adult female

Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Viperidae
Genus: Trimeresurus
Species:
T. mcgregori
Binomial name
Trimeresurus mcgregori
Taylor, 1919
Synonyms
  • Trimeresurus mcgregori
    Taylor, 1919
  • Trimeresurus flavomaculatus mcgregori — Leviton, 1961[2]
  • Trimeresurus mcgregori
    — Gumprecht, 2001
  • Parias flavomaculatus mcgregori
    — Malhotra & Thorpe, 2004
  • Trimeresurus mcgregori
    — Mattison, 2007
  • Parias mcgregori
    — Orlov et al., 2009
  • Trimeresurus (Parias) mcgregori — David et al., 2011[3]

Etymology

The specific name, mcgregori, is in honor of Richard Crittenden McGregor (1871-1936), who collected the type specimen,[6] and survived its bite.[7]

Description

The scalation includes 21 (23) rows of dorsal scales at midbody, 170-172/173-178 (or 169-172/168-178) ventral scales in males/females, 62-66/58-60 (or 63-69/56-62) subcaudal scales in males/females, and 10-11 supralabial scales.[4]

Geographic range

Found in the Philippines on the Batanes Islands. The type locality given is "Batan Island, Batanes Group, (lying between Luzon and Formosa)" (Philippine Islands).[2]

Taxonomy

Re-elevated to a full species, Trimeresurus mcgregori, by Gumprecht (2001, 2002).[4]

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References
  1. "Trimeresurus mcgregori ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015-4. http://oldredlist.iucnredlist.org/details/169876/0
  2. McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  3. "Trimeresurus mcgregori ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  4. Gumprecht A, Tillack F, Orlov NL, Captain A, Ryabov S. 2004. Asian Pitvipers. First Edition. Berlin: GeitjeBooks. 368 pp. ISBN 3-937975-00-4
  5. "Trimeresurus flavomaculatus mcgregori". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 12 August 2008.
  6. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Trimeresurus mcgregori, p. 173).
  7. Taylor (1919), p. 112.

Further reading
  • Taylor EH. 1919. "New or rare Philippine reptiles". Philippine Journal of Science 14: 105–125. ("Trimeresurus mcgregori sp. nov.", pp. 110–112.)


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