Kingdom Animalia Class Reptilia Family Viperidae Phylum Chordata Order Scaled reptiles | Subphylum Vertebrata Suborder Serpentes Subfamily Crotalinae Rank Species | |
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Scientific name Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus andersoni Similar Trimeresurus cantori, Trimeresurus labialis, Trimeresurus, Trimeresurus fasciatus, Trimeresurus albolabris septentrionalis | ||
Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus andersoni is a venomous pitviper subspecies endemic to the Andaman Islands of India.
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Etymology
The specific name, andersonii, is in honor of Scottish zoologist John Anderson, who worked in India 1864-1886 and was the first curator of the Indian Museum in Calcutta (now called Kolkata).
Geographic range
It is found only in the Andaman Islands of India. The type locality given by Theobald (1868) is "No record", which was restricted to "Andaman Islands" by Regenass and Kramer (1981).
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