Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Viperidae > Deinagkistrodon > Deinagkistrodon acutus

Deinagkistrodon acutus (Chinese Moccasin)

Synonyms: Agkistrodon acutus; Ancistrodon acutus; Halys acutus

Wikipedia Abstract

Common names: sharp-nosed pit viper, sharp-nosed viper, snorkel viper, hundred pacer, Chinese moccasin, . Deinagkistrodon is a monotypic genus created for a venomous pit viper species, D. acutus, found in Southeast Asia. No subspecies are currently recognized.
View Wikipedia Record: Deinagkistrodon acutus

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Deinagkistrodon acutus

Attributes

Gestation [1]  16 days
Litter Size [1]  13
Maximum Longevity [1]  8 years
Venomous [2]  Yes

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Fanjingshan Nature Reserve V 86145 Guizhou, China  
Fujian Wuyishan Nature Reserve V 206754 Fujian, China  
Tianmushan Biosphere Reserve 47993 China  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Kalicephalus chunkinensis <Unverified Name>[3]
Ophidascaris agkistrodontis <Unverified Name>[3]
Physaloptera agkistrodontis <Unverified Name>[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Venomous snakes and antivenoms search interface, World Health Organization
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0