Species of Thailand
Hagen’s pit viper
Thai: งูแก้วหางแดง, ngu geow hang daeng
Binomial name: Trimeresurus hageni, Theodorus Willem van Lidth de Jeude, 1886
Trimeresurus hageni is a venomous pit viper species endemic to Southeast Asia. No subspecies are currently recognized.
Etymology
The specific name, hageni, is in honor of naturalist "Dr. B. Hagen", who collected mammals, birds, reptiles, and insects in the eastern part of Sumatra.
Description
Scalation includes 21 rows of dorsal scales at midbody, 76–98 ventral scales, 63–89 subcaudal scales, and 9–12 supralabial scales.
Geographic range
This species is found in Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia (Sumatra and the nearby islands of Bangka, Simalur, Nias, Batu, and the Mentawai Islands).
The type locality given is "Sumatra ... [and] island of Banka". Brongersma (1933) emended this to "Deli, Sumatra".
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Scientific classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Suborder
- Serpentes
- Family
- Viperidae
- Genus
- Trimeresurus
- Species
- Trimeresurus hageni
Common names
- German: Hagens Bambusotter
- English:
- Hagen's green pit viper
- Hagen's pitviper
- Thai: งูแก้วหางแดง, ngu geow hang daeng
Synonyms
- Parias hageni, Tanya Chan-Ard et al. (2015)
- Parias hageni, Van Stanley Bartholomew Wallach et al. (2014)
- Trimeresurus (Parias) hageni, David et al. (2011)
- Parias hageni, Anita Malhotra & Roger Stephen Thorpe (2004)
- Trimeresurus hageni, Roy W. McDiarmid, Jonathan A. Campbell & T'Shaka A. Touré (1999)
- Trimeresurus hageni, Merel J. Cox et al. (1998)
- Trimeresurus hageni, Ulrich Manthey & Wolfgang Grossmann (1997)
- Trimeresurus hageni, Kenneth R. G. Welch (1994)
- Trimeresurus hageni, Alice Georgie Cruickshank Grandison (1972)
- Trimeresurus hageni, Léo Daniël Brongersma (1933)
- Lachesis hageni, Theodorus Willem van Lidth de Jeude (1922)
- Lachesis sumatranus, George Albert Boulenger (1896)
- Bothrops hageni, Bernhard Hagen (1890)
- Bothrops hageni, Theodorus Willem van Lidth de Jeude (1886)
- Trimeresurus sumatranus, Thomas Stamford Raffles (1822)
- Lachesis sumatranus nec Coluber sumatranus, Thomas Stamford Raffles (1822)
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN3.1)
No photo for this species yet
- Hala-Bala Wildlife Sanctuary
- Khao Chong
- Na Yong District, Trang
- Ron Phibun District, Nakhon Si Thammarat
- Sadao District, Songkhla
- San Kala Khiri National Park
- Thale Ban National Park
- Ton Nga-Chang Wildlife Sanctuary
- Trang Province
- Waeng District, Narathiwat
Range map of Trimeresurus hageni in Thailand
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