Common names: Motuo bamboo pitviper.

Trimeresurus medoensis is a venomous

Venomous snake

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 pitviper

Crotalinae

The Crotalinae, commonly known as "pit vipers" or crotaline snakes, are a subfamily of venomous vipers found in Asia and the Americas. They are distinguished by the presence of a heat-sensing pit organ located between the eye and the nostril on either side of the head...

 species

Species

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 found in India

India

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, Burma and Xizang

Tibet Autonomous Region

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 (Tibet), China

China

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. No subspecies are currently recognized.

Description

Maximum total length for males is 671 mm; for females it is 650 mm. Maximum tail length for males 125 mm; for females it is 115 mm. The hemipenes of the males are short, thick and spinose.

Scalation: dorsal scales

Dorsal scales

In snakes, the dorsal scales are the longitudinal series of plates that encircle the body, but do not include the ventral scales.When counting dorsal scales, numbers are often given for three points along the body, for example 19:21:17...

 in 17 longitudinal rows at midbody, of which rows 7-11 are slightly keeled. There are 8 upper labials, of which the first are separated from the nasal scales by a distinct suture. The ventrals number less than 150.

Color pattern: green or bluish green above, yellowish white below, the two separated by a bright bicolored red (below) and white (above) ventrolateral stripe (in both males and females), which occupies the whole of the outermost scale row and a portion of the second row.

Geographic range

Found in northern India

India

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 and also in the Namdapha Valley in the South, northern Burma (Myanmar), and southeastern Xizang

Tibet Autonomous Region

The Tibet Autonomous Region , Tibet or Xizang for short, also called the Xizang Autonomous Region is a province-level autonomous region of the People's Republic of China , created in 1965....

 (Tibet), China

China

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. The type locality listed is "near A-ni Bridge, Medo Xian, Xizang [Tibet], alt. 1,200 m" [Autonomous Region, China].