Yadong Green Pit Viper
Trimeresurus pretiosus Xu, Nguyen, Wang, Zhang, Poyarkov, Wei, Vogel, Peng & Weng, 2025
Also calledRắn lục xanh báu vật (vie) · 亚东竹叶青蛇 (Yă Dōng 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 (Xizang)
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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References
- Xu, Y.; Nguyen, T.V.; Wang, Z.; Zhang, T.; Poyarkov, N.A.; Wei, C.; Vogel, G.; Li, J.; Deng, J.; Sun, F.; et al. (2025). A New Green Pitviper of the Genus Trimeresurus Lacépède, 1804 (Squamata: Viperidae) from Xizang, China. Animals 2025, 15, 2675.
From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.