{{Short description|Species of snake}} {{Speciesbox | name = Trimeresurus andersonii | image = Trimeresurus andersonii - Shreeram M V.jpg | genus = Trimeresurus | species = andersonii | authority = Theobald, 1868 | synonyms = *''T''[''rimeresurus'']. ''Andersoni'' <br>{{small|Theobald, 1868}} *''T''[''rimeresurus'']. ''obscurus'' <br>{{small|Theobald, 1868}} *''Crotalus Trimeres''[''urus'']. ''Andersonii'' <br>{{small|— Higgins, 1873}} *''Trimeresurus andersonii'' <br>{{small|— Boulenger, 1890}} *''Trimeresurus acutimentalis'' <br>{{small|F. Werner, 1926}} *''Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus andersoni'' <br>{{small|— M.A. Smith, 1943}}<ref name="McD99">McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (1999). ''Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1''. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. {{ISBN|1-893777-00-6}} (series). {{ISBN|1-893777-01-4}} (volume).</ref> *''Trimeresurus andersonii'' <br>{{small|— Gumprecht et al., 2004}} *''Cryptelytrops andersonii'' <br>{{small|— Malhotra & Thorpe, 2004}} *''Trimeresurus (Trimeresurus) andersonii'' <br>{{small|— David et al., 2011}}<ref>"''Trimeresurus andersonii'' ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.</ref> }}

'''''Trimeresurus andersonii''''' is a venomous pitviper species<ref name="McD99"/> endemic to the Andaman Islands of India. Common names include: '''Nicobar mangrove pit viper''',<ref name="Meh87">Mehrtens JM (1987). ''Living Snakes of the World in Color''. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. {{ISBN|0-8069-6460-X}}.</ref> '''Anderson's pitviper''',<ref name="Gum04">Gumprecht A, Tillack F, Orlov NL, Captain A, Ryabov S (2004). ''Asian Pitvipers''. First Edition. Berlin: Geitje Books. 368 pp. {{ISBN|3-937975-00-4}}.</ref> and '''Andaman pit viper'''. thumb|Pitviper

==Etymology== The specific name, ''andersonii'', is in honor of Scottish zoologist John Anderson,<ref>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (''Trimeresurus andersonii'', p. 8).</ref> who worked in India 1864-1886 and was the first curator of the Indian Museum in Calcutta (now called Kolkata).

==Geographic range== ''T. andersonii'' is found only in the Andaman Islands of India. The type locality given by Theobald (1868) is "No record", which was restricted to "Andaman Islands" by Regenass and Kramer (1981).<ref name="McD99"/>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading== {{refbegin}} *Das I (1999). "Biogeography of the amphibians and reptiles of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India". pp.&nbsp;43–77. '''''In:''''' Ota H (editor) (1999). ''Tropical Island Herpetofauna'' ... Amsterdam: Elsevier. 353 pp. {{ISBN|978-0444501950}}. *Malhotra A, Thorpe RS (1996). "New perspectives on the evolution of south-east Asian Pit Vipers (genus ''Trimeresurus'') from molecular studies". pp.&nbsp;115–128. '''''In:''''' Thorpe RS, Wüster W, Malhotra A (editors) (1996).''Venomous Snakes: Ecology, Evolution and Snakebite''. Oxford, England: The Zoological Society of London / Clarendon Press. 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-0198549864}}. *Smith MA (1943). ''The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. III.—Serpentes''. Secretary of State for India. (Taylor and Francis, printers.) London. xii + 583 pp. (''Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus andersoni'', pp.&nbsp;521–522). *Theobald W (1868). "Catalogue of Reptiles in the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal". ''J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal'' '''37''' ("Extra Number"): vi + 7-88. (''"Trimeresurus Andersoni"'', new species, pp.&nbsp;75–76). {{refend}}

==External links== * {{NRDB species|genus=Trimeresurus|species=andersonii|date=17 December|year=2012}}

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andersonii Category:Fauna of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Category:Endemic reptiles of India