Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Viperidae > Protobothrops > Protobothrops flavoviridis

Protobothrops flavoviridis (Habu)

Synonyms: Bothrops flavoviridis; Trimeresurus flavoviridis; Trimeresurus flavoviridis tinkhami; Trimeresurus riukiuanus

Wikipedia Abstract

Trimeresurus flavoviridis is a venomous pit viper species endemic to the Ryukyu Islands of Japan. No subspecies are currently recognized.
View Wikipedia Record: Protobothrops flavoviridis

Infraspecies

Protobothrops flavoviridis flavoviridis (Habu)
Protobothrops flavoviridis tinkhami

Attributes

Gestation [1]  42 days
Litter Size [2]  7
Maximum Longevity [3]  25 years
Venomous [4]  Yes

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Nansei Islands subtropical evergreen forests Japan Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests    

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Japan Japan Yes

Prey / Diet

Pentalagus furnessi (Amami Rabbit)[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Gnathostoma doloresi[6]
Hexametra quadricornis[6]
Rhabdias agkistrodonis <Unverified Name>[6]
Strongyloides mirzai[6]

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
♦ 2A neglected life-history trait: clutch-size variance in snakes, R. Shine and R. A. Seigel, J. Zool. Lond. (1996) 239, 209-223
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4Venomous snakes and antivenoms search interface, World Health Organization
♦ 5Pentalagus furnessi, Fumio Yamada and Fernando A. Cervantes, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 782, pp. 1-5 (2005)
♦ 6Gibson, 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