Ranong Marine Fisheries Station, 157 Saphanpla Rd., Paknam, Muang, Ranong 85000, Thailand..
Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute, Thai Red Cross Society, Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330, Thailand..
Zootaxa. 2021 May 20;4974(2):307332. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4974.2.4.
We describe a colorful and distinctively patterned, karst-dwelling pitviper, Trimeresurus kuiburi sp. nov., from the isolated, coastal massif of Khao Sam Roi Yot in Kui Buri District, Prachuap Khiri Khan Province, in northern Peninsular Thailand. The new species, member of the 'Cryptelytrops group' sensu Malhotra Thorpe (2004) and morphologically and genetically allied to Trimeresurus kanburiensis and T. venustus, differs from all pitviper taxa by a combination of red/purple bands on a green dorsum; a white concave suborbital stripe in males (straight and less visible in females); white, spaced vertebral dots in males (absent in females); pale green belly lacking dark dots or stripe on the lateral sides of the ventrals; partially fused first supralabial and nasal scale; 19 dorsal scale rows at midbody; 164171 ventrals; 6365 subcaudals in males, 5153 in females; maximal known SVL of 451 mm; and long, papillose hemipenes.
我们描述了一种色彩斑斓、图案独特的喀斯特栖息蝮蛇，即库氏竹叶青蛇新种（Trimeresurus kuiburi sp. nov.），来自泰国北部攀牙府桂布里区考艾山罗伊约特（Khao Sam Roi Yot）孤立的沿海块状山体。该新种属于“Cryptelytrops 组”（Malhotra Thorpe，2004），在形态和遗传上与宽斑竹叶青蛇（Trimeresurus kanburiensis）和白头蝰（Trimeresurus venustus）有关联，与所有蝮蛇类群的区别在于绿色背部上有红色/紫色条纹；雄性有白色凹陷的眶下条纹（雌性为直条纹且不太明显）；雄性有白色间隔的椎点（雌性没有）；腹部呈浅绿色，没有侧腹的黑色斑点或条纹；第一上唇鳞和鼻鳞部分融合；中体有 19 行背鳞；雄性有 164-171 枚腹鳞，雌性有 164-171 枚腹鳞；雄性有 63-65 枚尾下鳞，雌性有 51-53 枚尾下鳞；已知最大的 SVL 为 451 毫米；阴茎长而有乳突。
