Craspedocephalus macrolepis

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

Craspedocephalus macrolepis (Beddome, 1862)

Lectotype: BMNH 1946.1.18.72 (formerly 1861.12.30.80), ♂, collected by R.H. Beddome between 1857–1862. [designated by Toriba in Golay et al. (1993: 101)]
Type locality: “Anamallay mountains at 6000 ft and Pulney Hills at 4000 ft”, restricted by lectotype designation to “Anaimallai Hills, India” by Toriba in Golay et al. (1993: 101).
Paralectotypes (n=2): BMNH 1946.1.17.75 and BMNH 1946.1.18.83, same data as the lectotype.

Trimeresurus macrolepis Beddome, 1862: 2 [original combination]
Peltopelor macrolepis — Günther, 1864: 391 [subsequent combination]
Trigonocephalus macrolepis — Ferguson, 1895: 77 [subsequent combination]
Lachesis macrolepis — Boulenger, 1896: 560 [subsequent combination]
Trimeresurus (Peltopelor) macrolepis — David, Vogel & Dubois, 2011 [subsequent combination]
Craspedocephalus macrolepis — Mallik et al., 2021: 582 [subsequent combination]

Beddome, R.H. 1862. Notes upon the land and freshwater snakes of the Madras Presidency. Madras Quarterly Journal of Medical Science 5: 1–31. Reference page.
Günther, A.C.L.G. 1864. The Reptiles of British India. Ray Society: London. xxvii + 452 pp. BHL Reference page.
Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III. Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ), Amblycephalidæ, and Viperidæ. British Museum (Natural History): London. xiv + 727 pp. BHL Reference page.
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 Lacépède, 1804 (Reptilia: Squamata: Viperidae). Zootaxa 2992(1): 1–51. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2992.1.1 Reference page.
Mallik, A.K., Srikanthan, A.N., Ganesh, S.R., Vijayakumar, S.P., Campbell, P.D., Malhotra, A. & Shanker, K. 2021. Resolving pitfalls in pit viper systematics – A multi-criteria approach to species delimitation in pit vipers (Reptilia, Viperidae, Craspedocephalus) of Peninsular India reveals cryptic diversity. Vertebrate Zoology 71: 577–619. DOI: 10.3897/vz.71.e66239 Reference page.

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. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2004.02.008 Reference page.
Wallach, V., Williams, K.L. & Boundy, J. 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group: Boca Raton, Florida. 1237 pp. ISBN 9781138034006 Reference page.
Boundy, J. 2021. Snakes of the World: A Supplement. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group: Boca Raton, Florida. 273 pp. ISBN 9781138618138 ebook Reference page.

Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Craspedocephalus macrolepis. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 14 November 2022.
Srinivasulu, C., Srinivasulu, B., Deepak, V., Shankar, G. & Das, A. 2013. IUCN: Peltopelor macrolepis (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T172623A1354137. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T172623A1354137.en. Accessed on 14 November 2022.

English: Large-scaled Pit Viper

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