Published September 30, 2019 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Trimeresurus

  • 1. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045;
  • 2. Herpetology Division, Institute of Biodiversity Science & Sustainability, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, California 94118. * Corresponding author; Email: jweine 2 @ gmail. com

Description

Trimeresurus

Key to Philippine species.

1a. Tail color distinctly different from body color (in life: tail color red, body color green); hemipenes spinose........................................... Trimeresurus schultzei

1b. Tail color not distinctly different from body color (in life: tail and body may be green, red, orange, yellow, gray, or white); hemipenes lack spines............................... 2

2a. Body and tail color green (adults and some juveniles in life) or red (some juveniles in life)...................................................... Trimeresurus flavomaculatus

2b. Body and tail color yellow, gray, or white (in life)............... Trimeresurus mcgregori

Notes

Published as part of Weinell, Jeffrey L., Hooper, Errol, Leviton, Alan E. & Brown, Rafe M., 2019, Illustrated Key to the Snakes of the Philippines, pp. 1-49 in Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 66 (1) on page 34, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11512680

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Squamata
Family
Viperidae
Genus
Trimeresurus
Taxon rank
genus