IMG_5414-0CC(W) Juvenile Mangrove Pit Viper (Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus)

Location: Singapore

Also known as Shore Pit Viper, Mangrove Viper

Toxicity: Venomous

Behavior: Unpredictable, from calm to highly aggressive. This specimen was very cooperative and did not strike- not even once.

 

Its color varies from dark grey, purplish-brown, patterned brown, with a white stripe along each flank, or greenish-yellow with dark mottling. Scales are strongly keeled-arboreal.

 

There are currently two subspecies:

-Nicobar Mangrove Pit Viper (T. purpureomaculatus andersoni0) from Andaman Islands.

- Mangrove Pit Viper (T. p. purpureomaculatus) from India (Assam), Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, West Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra and Java.

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