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Protobothrops jerdonii (yellow speckled lancehead; Bourret’s pitviper, xanthomelas)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Trimeresurus jerdonii xanthomelas is a venomous pitviper subspecies endemic to China.
View Wikipedia Record: Protobothrops jerdonii

Infraspecies

Protobothrops jerdonii bourreti
Protobothrops jerdonii jerdonii (Jerdon's pitviper)
Protobothrops jerdonii xanthomelas (Red-spotted pitviper)

Attributes

Venomous [1]  Yes

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Ailaoshan Nature Reserve V 332544 Yunnan, China  
Fanjingshan Nature Reserve V 86145 Guizhou, China  
Wolong Nature Reserve V 826140 Sichuan, China  

Biodiversity Hotspots

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

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Venomous snakes and antivenoms search interface, World Health Organization
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