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Sabah Mountain Pit-viper

Vipers & Pit-vipers

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Popeia sabahi

Basic stats

Range

Borneo (narrowly defined); Southeast Asia (broadly defined)

Size

Snout-vent length up to 62cm

The Sabah pit viper, or Sabah bamboo pitviper, is a venomous pitviper, now often placed in the genus Popeia. If defined narrowly it is endemic to Borneo; if defined more broadly it consists of five subspecies found in Southeast Asia, including forms on Sumatra, the Mentawai Archipelago, Tioman Island and the Malay Peninsula. Adults may attain a snout-vent length of 62 cm, and it is uniform green above and pale green below (Wikipedia, general species account).

Quick answers

Where is the Sabah Mountain Pit-viper found?
Borneo (narrowly defined); Southeast Asia (broadly defined)
How big is the Sabah Mountain Pit-viper?
Snout-vent length up to 62cm
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