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Taxonomy of the genus Craspedocephalus Biodiversity of the family Viperidae

Bibliography of the genus
Craspedocephalus (Ridge-nosed Tree Pitvipers)

(Reptilia: Serpentes: Viperidae)

Note: In order to limit redundancy, relevant literature indexed in the related bibliographies in the left column may not have been included in this page. For a comprehensive search of literature, these bibliographies should therefore also be consulted.


Craspedocephalus in general

Creer, S.; Pook, C.E.; Malhotra, A.; Thorpe, R.S. 2006. Optimal intron analyses in the Trimeresurus radiation of Asian pitvipers. Systematic Biology 55(1): 57-72.

David, P.; Vogel, G.; Dubois, A. 2011. On the need to follow rigorously the rules of the Code for the subsequent designation of a nucleospecies (type species) for a nominal genus which lacked one: the case of the nominal genus Trimeresurus Lacepede, 1804 (Reptilia: Squamata: Viperidae). Zootaxa 2992: 1-51.

Gumprecht, A.; Bulian, J. 2003. Die Bambusottern der Gattung Trimeresurus Lacepede. VIII. Nachträge und Anmerkungen zur Checkliste der Trimeresurus-Arten Thailands. Sauria (Berlin) 25(4): 15-17.

Gumprecht, A.; Ryabov, S.A. 2002. Die Gattung Trimeresurus Lacepede, 1804 - Zum Kenntnisstand der Forschung. Draco 3(4) (12): 31-44.

Gumprecht, A.; Tillack, F.; Orlov, N.L.; Captain, A.; Ryabov, S. 2004. Asian Pitvipers. GeitjeBooks, Berlin. 368 pp.

Malhotra, A.; Thorpe, R.S. 2004. A phylogeny of four mitochondrial gene regions suggests a revised taxonomy for Asian pitvipers (Trimeresurus and Ovophis). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 32(1): 83-100.

Regenass, U.; Kramer, E. 1981. Zur Systematik der grünen Grubenottern der Gattung Trimeresurus (Serpentes, Crotalidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 88(1): 163-205.

Craspedocephalus andalasensis

David, P.; Vogel, G.; Vijayakumar, S.P.; Vidal, N. 2006. A revision of the Trimeresurus puniceus-complex (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae) based on morphological and molecular data. Zootaxa 1293: 1-78.

Craspedocephalus borneensis

Asad, S.; Harman, C. 2014. Natural history notes: Trimeresurus borneensis (Bornean Palm Pit Viper). Diet. Herpetological Review 45(4): 714-715.

David, P.; Vogel, G.; Vijayakumar, S.P.; Vidal, N. 2006. A revision of the Trimeresurus puniceus-complex (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae) based on morphological and molecular data. Zootaxa 1293: 1-78.

Gumprecht, A. 2001. Die Bambusottern der Gattung Trimeresurus Lacepede. IV. Checkliste der Trimesurus-Arten Thailands. Sauria (Berlin) 23(2): 25-32.

Neill, W.T. 1960. The caudal lure of various juvenile snakes. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 23: 173-200.

Craspedocephalus brongersmai

David, P.; Vogel, G.; Vijayakumar, S.P.; Vidal, N. 2006. A revision of the Trimeresurus puniceus-complex (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae) based on morphological and molecular data. Zootaxa 1293: 1-78.

Hoge, A.R.; Lemos Romano, S.A. de 1974. Notes on Trimeresurus brongersmai Hoge 1969 (Serpentes, Viperidae, Crotalinae). Memorias do Instituto Butantan (Sao Paulo) 38: 147-158.

Craspedocephalus gramineus

Andavan, L.M. 2004. Reappearance of bamboo or green pit viper (Trimeresurus gramineus Shaw) in the Kalakkad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, southern Western Ghats of India. Tigerpaper (Bangkok) 31(1): 32.

Barooa, J.N. 1951. Breeding of the green pit viper (Trimeresurus gramineus). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 50: 414.

Chakraborty, R.; Gayen, N.C.; Kar, S. 2008. Reptilia. pp. 181-208. In: Director, Zoological Survey of India (ed.). Vertebrate fauna of Kangerghati, Guru Ghasidas and Sanjay National Parks (Madhya Pradesh and Chhatisgarh). Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata. 263 pp.

Chavan, A. 1999. A large brood of the green pit viper (Trimeresurus gramineus). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 96(3): 477-478.

Chowdhury, S.; Dutta, A.; Chaudhuri, A.; Ghosh, S. 2017. Notes on the occurrence of the Bamboo Pitviper, Trimeresurus cf. gramineus (Reptilia: Squamata: Viperidae), from southwestern West Bengal, India. IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians 24(3): 168–171.

d'Abreu, E.A. 1933. The occurrence of the green pit viper (Trimeresurus gramineus Shaw) at Nagpur. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 36: 512.

Ganesh, S.R.; Arumugam, M. 2016. Species richness of montane herpetofauna of southern Eastern Ghats, India: a historical resume and a descriptive checklist. Russian Journal of Herpetology 23(1): 7-24.

Kinnear, N.B. 1912. Breeding of the common green viper (Lachesis gramineus). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 21: 1339.

Kopstein, F. 1938. Herpetologische Notizen XVIII. Über die systematische Stellung der Art Trimeresurus gramineus (Shaw) von den Sunda-Inseln. Treubia 16(3): 325-333.

Kudryavtsev, S.V.; Frolov, V.E. 1984. The third generation of the bamboo pit viper, Trimeresurus gramineus (Squamata, Crotalidae) at the Moscow Zoo and an attempt at sex determination. Annual Reptile Symposium on Captive Propagation and Husbandry Proceedings 7 [1983]: 139-144.

Nande, R.; Deshmukh, S. 2007. Snakes of Amravati district including Melghat, Maharashtra, with important records of the Indian egg-eater, montane trinket snake and Indian Smooth Snake. Zoos' Print Journal 22(12): 2920-2924.

Neill, W.T. 1960. The caudal lure of various juvenile snakes. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 23: 173-200.

Poel, T.J.A.M. van der 1982. Curious behaviour of Trimeresurus gramineus. Litteratura Serpentium 2(5): 214-215.

Poel, T.J.A.M. van der 1986. Breeding results. Trimeresurus gramineus. Litteratura Serpentium (English Edition) 6(1): 43-44.

Pope, C.H.; Pope, S.H. 1933. A study of the Green Pit-Vipers of South-Eastern Asia and Malaysia, commonly identified as Trimeresurus gramineus (Shaw) with description of a new species from Peninsular India. American Museum Novitates 620: 1-12.

Sawant, N.S.; Jadhav, T.D. 2013. Factors influencing habitat selection by arboreal pit vipers. Zoological Science (Tokyo) 30(1): 21-26.

Sawant, N.S.; Jadhav, T.D.; Shyama, S.K. 2010. Distribution and abundance of pit vipers (Reptilia: Viperidae) along the Western Ghats of Goa, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 2(10): 1199-1204.

Smith, M.A. 1937. The names of two Indian vipers. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 39: 730-731.

Stettler, P.H. 1971. Trimeresurus gramineus und T. popeorum im Terrarium. DATZ (Die Aquarien- und Terrarien-Zeitschrift) 24(6): 204-207.

Werner, F. 1926. Neue oder wenig bekannte Schlangen aus dem Wiener naturhistorischen Staatsmuseum. 3. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin 135: 243-257.

Craspedocephalus macrolepis

Aengals, R. 1995. Reptilian fauna in the plantation of Valparai, Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu. Cobra (Madras) 19: 21-23.

David, P.; Vogel, G.; Dubois, A. 2011. On the need to follow rigorously the rules of the Code for the subsequent designation of a nucleospecies (type species) for a nominal genus which lacked one: the case of the nominal genus Trimeresurus Lacepede, 1804 (Reptilia: Squamata: Viperidae). Zootaxa 2992: 1-51.

Ganesh, S.R.; Asokan, S.; Kannan, P. 2008. Record length of large scaled pit viper (Trimeresurus macrolepis) Beddome 1862, with notes on its ecological and conservational significance. Cobra (Chennai) 2(3): 17-22.

Ganesh, S.R.; Asokan, S.; Kannan, P. 2010. Patterns of resource use, overlap and partitioning among three sympatric species of south Indian pitvipers. Herpetological Bulletin 113: 14-19.

Gumprecht, A.; Ryabov, S.A. 2002. Die Gattung Trimeresurus Lacepede, 1804 - Zum Kenntnisstand der Forschung. Draco 3(4) (12): 31-44.

Gumprecht, A.; Tillack, F.; Orlov, N.L.; Captain, A.; Ryabov, S. 2004. Asian Pitvipers. GeitjeBooks, Berlin. 368 pp.

Guo, P.; Jadin, R.C.; Malhotra, A.; Li, C. 2010. An investigation of the cranial evolution of Asian pitvipers (Serpentes: Crotalinae), with comments on the phylogenetic position of Peltopelor macrolepis. Acta Zoologica (Copenhagen) 91(4): 402-407.

Laurent, R.F. 1948. Notes sur quelques reptiles appartenant a la collection du Musée royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique. II. Formes asiatiques et néoguinéennes. Bulletin Mus. Hist. Nat. Belgique (Bruxelles) 24(17): 1-12.

Malhotra, A.; Thorpe, R.S. 2004. A phylogeny of four mitochondrial gene regions suggests a revised taxonomy for Asian pitvipers (Trimeresurus and Ovophis). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 32(1): 83-100.

Seshadri, K.S. 2012. Occurrence of large-scaled pit viper Trimeresurus macrolepis Beddome, 1862 in the forest canopy of Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, southern India. Herpetology Notes 5: 201-202.

Srinivasulu, C.; Srinivasulu, B.; Deepak, V.; Shankar, G.; Das, A. 2013. Peltopelor macrolepis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T172623A1354137. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T172623A1354137.en.

Whitaker, R. 1973. Pit viper (Trimeresurus macrolepis (Beddome)) bites at a south Indian tea estate. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 70(1): 207-208.

Craspedocephalus malabaricus

Aengals, R. 1995. Reptilian fauna in the plantation of Valparai, Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu. Cobra (Madras) 19: 21-23.

Ganesh, S.R.; Asokan, S.; Kannan, P. 2010. Patterns of resource use, overlap and partitioning among three sympatric species of south Indian pitvipers. Herpetological Bulletin 113: 14-19.

Kanagavel, A.; Sekar, R.; Whitaker, N.; Raghavan, R. 2012. A Malabar Pit Viper, Trimeresurus malabaricus (Jerdon, 1854) morph from the southern Western Ghats. Reptile Rap 14: 27-28.

Kannan, P.; Rajarathinam, R.; Kalaiarasan, V. 2006. Husbandry of some pit vipers at Chennai snake park. Cobra (Chennai) 63: 1-3.

Lele, Y.; Chunekar, H. 2014. Attempted predation on a land snail by a Malabar Pit Viper, Trimeresurus malabaricus (Jerdon, 1854) (Squamata: Viperidae: Crotalinae). IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians 21(3): 103–104.

Mukherjee, S. 1996. Peculiar water shedding posture observed in Malabar pit viper (Trimeresurus malabaricus). Cobra (Madras) 25: 14.

Rao, C.R.N. 1917. Notes on Lachesis anamallensis and allied forms. Records of the Indian Museum 13: 11-15.

Rao, D. 2000. [A complementary survey of the herpetofauna of Xizang Autonomous Region (Tibet) with discussion of their distribution and current status]. (In Chinese, English summary). Sichuan Journal of Zoology 19(3): 110-112.

Sawant, N.S.; Jadhav, T.D. 2013. Factors influencing habitat selection by arboreal pit vipers. Zoological Science (Tokyo) 30(1): 21-26.

Sawant, N.S.; Jadhav, T.D.; Shyama, S.K. 2010. Distribution and abundance of pit vipers (Reptilia: Viperidae) along the Western Ghats of Goa, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 2(10): 1199-1204.

Whitaker, R. 1969. Occurrence of the pit-viper Trimeresurus malabaricus (Jerdon) on the Ghodbunder Road (Thana dist.) with some notes on their habits. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 66: 183.

Craspedocephalus puniceus

David, P.; Petri, M.; Vogel, G.; Doria, G. 2009. A new species of pitviper of the genus Trimeresurus (Popeia) from northern Sumatra (Reptilia, Squamata, Viperidae). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" 100: 323-346.

David, P.; Vogel, G.; Vijayakumar, S.P.; Vidal, N. 2006. A revision of the Trimeresurus puniceus-complex (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae) based on morphological and molecular data. Zootaxa 1293: 1-78.

Gumprecht, A.; Tepedelen, K. 1999. Die Bambusottern der Gattung Trimeresurus Lacepede. Teil 3: Die Java-Palmenotter Trimeresurus puniceus (Boie, 1827). Sauria (Berlin) 21(4): 25-36.

Lim, B.L. 1963. Comments on some rare snakes. Federation Mus. J. N.S. 8: 60-64.

Neill, W.T. 1960. The caudal lure of various juvenile snakes. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 23: 173-200.

Ryabov, S.A.; Orlov, N.L.; Panteleev, D.J.; Shiryaev, K.A. 2002. Trimeresurus hageni, Trimeresurus puniceus, and Trimeresurus sumatranus (Ophidia: Viperidae: Crotalinae): The data on reproductive biology and methods of captive breeding in laboratory conditions. Russian Journal of Herpetology 9(3): 243-254.

Smith, M.A. 1928. Two vipers new to Siam. Journal Siam Soc. 7(3): 194.

Smith, M.A. 1930. Two new snakes from Tonkin, Indo-China. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Ser. 10) 6: 681-683.

Sworder, G.H. 1925. An uncommon viper (Trimeresurus puniceus). Singapore Naturalist 1(5): 99.

Wegner, A.M.R. 1953. Slangen. III. (Die slangen van de Indo-Australisches Archipel). De Tropische Natuur 23(1): 3-9.

Craspedocephalus strigatus

Ganesh, S.R.; Chandramouli, S.R. 2018. On the distribution of Trimeresurus strigatus Gray, 1842 – A corrective note. Sauria (Berlin) 40(1): 87-91.

Kannan, P.; Bhupathy, S. 1996. Breeding season of horse-shoe pit viper (Trimeresurus strigatus) in Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 93(3): 592.

Neill, W.T. 1960. The caudal lure of various juvenile snakes. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 23: 173-200.

Craspedocephalus trigonocephalus

Green, E.E. 1910. A large green viper. Spolia Zeylanica 7(26): 106.

Gumprecht, A. 1999. Trimeresurus trigonocephalus (Latreille). Sauria (Berlin) 21(3): 461-466.

Hoer, K. 2014. Haltung und Zucht der Ceylon-Lanzenotter, Trimeresurus trigonocephalus. Terraria-Elaphe 2014(45): 58-62.

Kularatne, S.A.M.; Pathirage, M. 2005. Life threatening envenoming by green pit viper (Trimeresurus trigonocephalus) bite. Lyriocephalus 6(1-2): 327-328.

Nanayakkara, G.L.A. 1994. The form and function of the procryptic adaptations of the green pit-viper (Trimeresurus trigonocephalus) in Sri Lanka. The Snake 26(1): 75-78.

Russel, P. 1982. Some colour variations of the green pit viper (Trimeresurus trigonocephalus). Loris 16(1): 61-63.

Silva, A. de 1983. Reproductive habits of Trimeresurus trigonocephalus (Sonnini et Latrelle). The Snake 15(1): 16-21.

Craspedocephalus wiroti

David, P.; Vogel, G.; Vijayakumar, S.P.; Vidal, N. 2006. A revision of the Trimeresurus puniceus-complex (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae) based on morphological and molecular data. Zootaxa 1293: 1-78.

Nutphand, W.; Cox, M.J.; Trutnau, L.; Smith, H.L. 1991. The status of the Thai palm viper, Trimeresurus wiroti. Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society 27(3): 146-156.

Toriba, M. 1992. A comment on the status of the Thai palm viper, Trimeresurus wiroti. The Snake 24(1): 71-73.