Protobothrops tokarensis

Protobothrops tokarensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Viperoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Viperoidea

Familia: Viperidae
Subfamilia: Crotalinae
Genus: Protobothrops
Species: Protobothrops tokarensis

Name

Protobothrops tokarensis (Nagai, 1928)

• Holotype: KMJ unnumbered, collected by K. Nagai between 1922–1928. [lost during World War II fide McDiarmid et al. (1999: 347)]
• Type locality: “Takarashima, Prov. Kagoshima”, Tokara Islands, Japan.

Combinations

• Trimeresurus tokarensis Nagai, 1928: 6 [original combination]
• Trimeresurus flavoviridis tokarensis Maki, 1931: 233 [subsequent combination]
• Protobothrops tokarensis — Kraus, Mink & Brown, 1996: 769 [subsequent combination]

Native distribution areas

• Japan: Ryukyu Islands : Tokara Islands: Kotakarajima and Takarajima.

References

Primary references

• Nagai, K. 1928. トカラハブとエラブウナギ [Tokara-habu to Erabu-unagi (Trimeresurus tokarensis and Laticauda semifasciata)]. In: 鹿児島県博物調査 第3輯 [Kagoshima-ken Hakubutsu Chōsa (Survey of natural history of Kagoshima Prefecture)]. Kagoshima-ken Kyoiku Chōsa Kai 3: v + 64 pp., 14 pls. NDL Digital Collections Reference page. 
• Maki, M. 1931. A Monograph of the Snakes of Japan. Dai-ichi Shobo: Tokyo. 240 pp. Reference page. 
• Kraus, F., Mink, D.G. & Brown, W.M. 1996. Crotaline intergeneric relationships based on mitochondrial DNA sequence data. Copeia 1996(4): 763–773. DOI: 10.2307/1447637 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Richard C. Goris, Norio Maeda: Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Japan, Krieger Publishing Company, 2004, ISBN 1575240858 (pp. 271–273)

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Protobothrops tokarensis. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 17 November 2020.
• Ota, H. & Kidera, N. 2018. IUCN: Protobothrops tokarensis  (Vulnerable). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T96265537A96265559.en

Vernacular names

English: Tokara Habu
日本語: トカラハブ