Trimeresurus malcolmi

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 Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Viperoidea

Familia: Viperidae
Subfamilia: Crotalinae
Genus: Trimeresurus
Subgenus: Trimeresurus (Parias)
Species: Trimeresurus malcolmi

Name

Trimeresurus malcolmi Loveridge, 1938

• Holotype: MCZ 43604, adult ♀, collected by J.A. Griswold, Jr. on 20 July 1937.
• Type locality: “Sungii River, near Bundutuan, Mount Kinabalu, British North Borneo, at an altitude circa 3,000 feet”.

Combinations

• Trimeresurus sumatranus malcolmi Loveridge, 1938: 45 [original combination]
• Trimeresurus malcolmi — Stuebing & Inger, 1998: 325 [subsequent combination]
• Parias malcolmi — Malhotra & Thorpe, 2004: 87 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Loveridge, A. 1938. New snakes of the genera Calamaria, Bungarus and Trimeresurus from Mt. Kinabalu, North Borneo. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 51: 43–46. BHL
• Stuebing, R.B. & Inger, R.F. 1998. Additional records on two rare snakes from Borneo, with the confirmation of Trimeresurus malcolmi Loveridge as a distinct species. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 46(2): 325–328. PDF 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. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2025. Trimeresurus malcolmi. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 16 March 2023.
• Inger, R.F., Grismer, L. & Chan-Ard, T. 2013. IUCN: Trimeresurus malcolmi  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T178274A44273835. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T178274A44273835.en. Accessed on 16 March 2023.

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Sumatra-bambusotter
English: Malcolm’s Pitviper