New country record of Trimeresurus uetzi Vogel, Nguyen & David, 2023 (Reptilia: Squamata: Viperidae) from India
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https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.8910.16.5.25268-25272Keywords:
Green Pit Viper, morphology, northeastern India, range extensionAbstract
We report the occurrence of Trimeresurus uetzi in Mizoram, northeastern India, which was recently described from Myanmar. We established the identity of the specimen based on morphological characters according to the original description of the species. This report represents a new country record of the species from India as well as a range extension of the species northwestward from the known records in Myanmar.
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