{"id":239726,"date":"2024-07-04T14:05:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T14:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/04\/trimeresurus-cyanolabris-blue-lipped-green-viper-is-new-to-science\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:15:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:15:30","slug":"trimeresurus-cyanolabris-blue-lipped-green-viper-is-new-to-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/04\/trimeresurus-cyanolabris-blue-lipped-green-viper-is-new-to-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Trimeresurus cyanolabris: Blue-lipped green viper is new to science"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Trimeresurus cyanolabris is new to science<\/p>\n

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A multicoloured venomous snake<\/a> found in dry tropical forests in central Vietnam has been recognised as a new species. Trimeresurus cyanolabris <\/em>has a bright grass-green body, yellow eyes, a brick-red tail and blue lips, chin and throat, and it has been dubbed the blue-lipped green pit viper.<\/p>\n

The snake, which feeds on small frogs and lizards, is most active at dusk and after nightfall, spending the day perched on branches or in the hollows of trees near streams.<\/p>\n

T. cyanolabris<\/em> is one of 50 closely related Asian species of pit viper and can be distinguished by its colours and smaller size. Sabira Idiiatullina<\/a> at Moscow State University in Russia and her colleagues used genetic analysis to confirm that the snake is a distinct, previously unrecognised species<\/a>\u00a0and that its closest known relative is the red-eyed Trimeresurus<\/em>\u00a0rubeus<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Genetic methods<\/a> are likely to identify more Trimeresurus <\/em>species \u2013 it is one of the most species-rich groups of venomous snakes known \u2013 but the forests where many of them live are at risk of deforestation.<\/p>\n

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