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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Species of snake}}<br />
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| genus = Trimeresurus<br />
| species = andersonii<br />
| authority = [[William Theobald|Theobald]], 1868<br />
| synonyms = *''T''[''rimeresurus'']. ''Andersoni'' <br>{{small|Theobald, 1868}}<br />
*''T''[''rimeresurus'']. ''obscurus'' <br>{{small|Theobald, 1868}}<br />
*''Crotalus Trimeres''[''urus'']. ''Andersonii'' <br>{{small|— Higgins, 1873}}<br />
*''Trimeresurus andersonii'' <br>{{small|— [[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]], 1890}}<br />
*''Trimeresurus acutimentalis'' <br>{{small|[[Franz Werner|F. Werner]], 1926}}<br />
*''Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus andersoni'' <br>{{small|— [[Malcolm Arthur Smith|M.A. Smith]], 1943}}<ref name="McD99">[[:fr:Roy Wallace McDiarmid|McDiarmid RW]], [[Jonathan A. Campbell|Campbell JA]], [[T'Shaka A. Touré|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).</ref><br />
*''Trimeresurus andersonii'' <br>{{small|— Gumprecht et al., 2004}}<br />
*''Cryptelytrops andersonii'' <br>{{small|— Malhotra & Thorpe, 2004}}<br />
*''Trimeresurus (Trimeresurus) andersonii'' <br>{{small|— David et al., 2011}}<ref>"''Trimeresurus andersonii'' ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.</ref><br />
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'''''Trimeresurus andersonii''''' is a [[venomous snake|venomous]] [[Crotalinae|pitviper]] [[species]]<ref name="McD99"/> [[Endemism|endemic]] to the [[Andaman Islands]] of [[India]].<br />
[[Common name]]s include: '''Nicobar mangrove pit viper''',<ref name="Meh87">[[John M. Mehrtens|Mehrtens JM]] (1987). ''Living Snakes of the World in Color''. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. {{ISBN|0-8069-6460-X}}.</ref> '''Anderson's pitviper''',<ref name="Gum04">[[Andreas Gumprecht|Gumprecht A]], [[Frank Tillack|Tillack F]], [[Nikolaï Orlov|Orlov NL]], [[Ashok Captain|Captain A]], [[Sergei A. Ryabov|Ryabov S]] (2004). ''Asian Pitvipers''. First Edition. Berlin: Geitje Books. 368 pp. {{ISBN|3-937975-00-4}}.</ref> and '''Andaman pit viper'''.<br />
[[File:Pitviper.JPG|thumb|Pitviper]]<br />
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==Etymology==<br />
The [[Specific name (zoology)|specific name]], ''andersonii'', is in honor of [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[Zoology|zoologist]] [[John Anderson (zoologist)|John Anderson]],<ref>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (''Trimeresurus andersonii'', p. 8).</ref> who worked in India 1864-1886 and was the first [[curator]] of the [[Indian Museum]] in Calcutta (now called [[Kolkata]]).<br />
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==Geographic range==<br />
''T. andersonii'' is found only in the [[Andaman Islands]] of [[India]]. The [[Type locality (biology)|type locality]] given by [[William Theobald|Theobald]] (1868) is "No record", which was restricted to "Andaman Islands" by [[Urs Regenass|Regenass]] and [[Eugen Kramer|Kramer]] (1981).<ref name="McD99"/><br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
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*[[:fr:Indraneil Das|Das I]] (1999). "Biogeography of the amphibians and reptiles of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India". pp.&nbsp;43–77. '''''In:''''' Ota H (editor) (1999). ''Tropical Island Herpetofauna'' ... Amsterdam: Elsevier. 353 pp. {{ISBN|978-0444501950}}.<br />
*[[Anita Malhotra|Malhotra A]], [[Roger Stephen Thorpe|Thorpe RS]] (1996). "New perspectives on the evolution of south-east Asian Pit Vipers (genus ''Trimeresurus'') from molecular studies". pp.&nbsp;115–128. '''''In:''''' Thorpe RS, [[Wolfgang Wüster|Wüster W]], Malhotra A (editors) (1996).''Venomous Snakes: Ecology, Evolution and Snakebite''. Oxford, England: The Zoological Society of London / Clarendon Press. 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-0198549864}}.<br />
*[[Malcolm Arthur Smith|Smith MA]] (1943). ''The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. III.—Serpentes''. Secretary of State for India. (Taylor and Francis, printers.) London. xii + 583 pp. (''Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus andersoni'', pp.&nbsp;521–522).<br />
*[[William Theobald|Theobald W]] (1868). "Catalogue of Reptiles in the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal". ''J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal'' '''37''' ("Extra Number"): vi + 7-88. (''"Trimeresurus Andersoni"'', new species, pp.&nbsp;75–76).<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{NRDB species|genus=Trimeresurus|species=andersonii|date=17 December|year=2012}}<br />
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[[Category:Trimeresurus|andersonii]]<br />
[[Category:Reptiles of India]]<br />
[[Category:Fauna of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands]]<br />
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