Kunming Green Pit Viper
Trimeresurus loong Xu, Deng, Zhang, Nguyen, Weng, Poyarkov, Vogel, Sun, Liao & Peng, 2025
Also called昆明竹叶青蛇” (Kūn Míng Zhú Yè Qīng Shé) (zho)
This species is in the Catalogue of Life but not yet in the 2023 GBIF backbone or on iNaturalist: most likely it was described, or split from another species, very recently. What is known so far is below.
- Recorded from
- China (Yunnan)
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Trimeresurus loong in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
References
- Xu Y, Deng J, Zhang T, Nguyen TV, Weng S, Poyarkov NA, Vogel G, Sun F, Liao C, & Peng L. (2025). A ‘little dragon’ from Kunming City: a new green pit viper from Yunnan Province, China (Squamata, Viperidae, Trimeresurus). Zoosystematics and Evolution 101(4): 2267-2293.
From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.