World Species : Trimeresurus stejnegeri (Chinese Green Tree Viper, Stejnegers Bamboo pitviper; chenbihuii; Chinese Green Tree Viper, Stejneger’s Bamboo pitviper; chenbihuii)

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Trimeresurus stejnegeri (Chinese Green Tree Viper, Stejnegers Bamboo pitviper; chenbihuii; Chinese Green Tree Viper, Stejneger’s Bamboo pitviper; chenbihuii)

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Synonyms: Trimeresurus graminaeus formosensis; Trimeresurus graminaeus kodairai; Trimeresurus gramineus formosensis; Trimeresurus gramineus kodairai; Viridovipera stejnegeri

Wikipedia Abstract

Trimeresurus stejnegeri is a species of venomous pit viper endemic to Asia. Three subspecies are currently recognized, including the nominate subspecies described here.

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Infraspecies

Trimeresurus stejnegeri chenbihuii (Chen's bamboo pitviper)
Trimeresurus stejnegeri stejnegeri

Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	1.191 lbs (540 g)

Maximum Longevity ^[1]	7 years
Venomous ^[2]	Yes

Ecoregions

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Protected Areas

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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

Prey / Diet

Buergeria robusta (Brown Tree Frog)	^[3]
Odorrana swinhoana (Tip-nosed Frog)	^[3]
Polypedates megacephalus (Hong Kong Whipping Frog)	^[3]
Rana sauteri (Brown frog)	^[3]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing Species	Common Prey Count
Ketupa flavipes (Tawny Fish Owl)	2

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
♦ ³Offshore Insular Variation in the Diet of the Taiwanese Bamboo Viper Trimeresurus stejnegeri (Schmidt), Simon Creer, Wen-Hao Chou, Anita Malhotra and Roger S. Thorpe, ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE 19: 907913 (2002)

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

Trimeresurus stejnegeri (Chinese Green Tree Viper, Stejnegers Bamboo pitviper; chenbihuii; Chinese Green Tree Viper, Stejneger’s Bamboo pitviper; chenbihuii)