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The bamboo leaf green snake has always referred to the snakes in the genus Bamboo leaf green in the viper family, and their common feature is the green body, the triangular head, all of which are highly venomous snakes. Biologically, the broad bamboo leaf green snake genus includes a wide range, including not only the arboreal bamboo leaf green snake, but also some pit vipers of the ground habitat, such as the snakes of the genus Proto-spearhead viper.
This group of snakes, which are widely distributed in Asia, because of their extremely wide distribution range, the entire Southeast Asian region, including China, is their distribution area. Most of the morphological colors are very close, and only a few body colors vary greatly. With the enrichment of research methods and the refinement of classification methods, snakes in the genus Generalized Bamboo Leaf Qing have been split many times.
Even the snakes of the genus Bamboo Leaf Green Snake after the split, due to their subtle morphological differences, it is difficult to further establish the taxonomic status of these different snakes. The current research methods, combined with basic morphology and molecular biology methods to classify species, have more credible and convincing results. At present, the snakes of the narrow sense of the bamboo leaf green snake genus distributed in China include the white-lipped bamboo leaf green snake, the Fujian bamboo leaf green snake, the Yunnan bamboo leaf green snake, the Taiwan bamboo leaf green snake, the Gang's bamboo leaf green snake, the Pop bamboo leaf green snake, the Sichuan bamboo leaf green snake, the Metuo bamboo leaf green snake, the Tibetan bamboo leaf green snake, as well as the new Yingjiang bamboo leaf green snake newly discovered in Yingjiang County, Yunnan Province, China in 2019 and the ornamented tail bamboo leaf green snake found in 2020. As many as 7 species are found in Yunnan, and many are snakes endemic to Yunnan or only distributed in Yunnan.
It is conceivable that if you are given a bamboo leaf green snake, non-professionals may not necessarily know which kind of snake this snake belongs to, and even professionals may not be able to distinguish the specific snake species by appearance alone. The small difference in morphological characteristics has caused confusion in the classification of bamboo leaf green snakes in these different distribution areas, which is one of the hot areas of zoologist research.
After 2000, researchers at home and abroad have made a lot of progress in the morphological, anatomical and molecular biology classification of these bamboo leaf green snakes, making the classification of bamboo leaf green snakes more orderly and reasonable. Let's take a look at these reclassified bamboo leaf green snakes distributed in China, which belong to the snakes under the Viper family. Some species have replanned new genera, but due to the habitual nature of Chinese names, Chinese nomenclature does not follow the naming conventions for new genera.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > green viper genus Viridovipera</h1>
The new genus established in 2004, with a green body and small scales between the noses, is separated from each other; The first upper lip scales are separated from the nasal scales. The edge of the buccal fossa has a protrusion , the anterolaterolateral process of the outer wing bone is broad; the palatal bone is meniscus, toothed. The penile is split deep or shallow, with sepals at the distal end and spines at the proximal end. The included snakes are:
Viridovipera medoensis
The model origin is located in the territory of Tibet Andu in China, and the foreign countries are distributed in northern Myanmar and northeastern India. The red stripes on the sides of the body are very pronounced.
Yunnan bamboo leaf green snake Viridovipera yunnanensis
There has been controversy about this species, with many scholars believing that it is a Yunnan-Asian species of the Fujian bamboo leaf green snake, but based on the latest molecular biology research results, it has established a separate species. China is distributed in Yunnan and southern Sichuan, and abroad in Nepal.
Fujian bamboo leaf green snake Viridovipera stejnegeri
Morphologically similar to Yunnan Bamboo Leaf Green, this is a bamboo leaf green snake widely distributed in the southern provinces of China, distributed abroad in India, Nepal, Vietnam and Myanmar.
Viridovipera gumprechti
It is found only in Yunnan Province and is found in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Myanmar.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="66" > Popea</h1>
The body is green , the first upper lip scales are separated from the nasal scales. The half penis is thin and long, all calyx, without thorns.
Pop bamboo leaf green snake Popea popeorum
It is only distributed in Yunnan Province in China, and is found in northeast India, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand and other places.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="67" > Chinese vipera</h1>
Sichuan Viper
Formerly known as Sichuan bamboo leaf green snake, a unique species in China, belongs to the single genus of single snakes, first found in Hejiang County, Sichuan Province in 2007, named as an independent species in 2011, and later found in Guizhou Province.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="69" > Trimeresurus</h1>
The only snakes distributed in China are the Taiwan bamboo leaf green snake and the white-lipped bamboo leaf green snake, and the current research on Taiwan bamboo leaf green needs to be further confirmed. In 2019 and 2020, Two new species of bamboo leaf green snake were found in Yingjiang County, Yunnan Province, namely Yingjiang bamboo leaf green snake and ornamented tail bamboo leaf green snake.
Cryptelytrops albolabris
This is the most widely distributed bamboo leaf green snake in China, and many places have become dominant snake species.
Yingjiang bamboo leaf green snake Trimeresurus yingjiangensis
The model origin is Yingjiang, Yunnan, a new species published in 2019. Morphologically, it is somewhat similar to Fujian bamboo leaf green and Yunnan bamboo leaf green.
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female
Trimeresurus caudornatus
The model origin is Yingjiang, Yunnan, a new species published in 2020.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="71" > Himalayophis</h1>
There are Tibetan bamboo leaf green snakes distributed in China, which is a model species of this genus, a species endemic to China, and the mode production area is located in Nielamu, Tibet, Tuluo, this number is extremely rare.
Bamboo leaf green snake is a venomous snake that is widely adapted to arboreal life, which can be seen from the emerald green body throughout, which is the result of natural evolution. This kind of snake is neither an economic snake, nor is it the main medicinal snake, in many areas of China have become the dominant snake species, the domestic wide distribution is still the white-lipped bamboo leaf green snake and Fujian bamboo leaf green snake.