#1785 · 🦎 reptiles
White-lipped Pit Viper
🇳🇱 Witlipbamboeadder ·Trimeresurus albolabris
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what is it?
Trimeresurus albolabris , the white-lipped pit viper , is a venomous pit viper species endemic to Southeast Asia. Three subspecies are currently recognized, including the nominate subspecies described here.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 4,991 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by John Edward Gray in 1842 (184 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- White-lipped Pit Viper
- Nederlands
- Witlipbamboeadder
- scientific name
- Trimeresurus albolabris
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Squamata
- family
- Viperidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 4,991
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1842 by John Edward Gray
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 146506, Wikidata Q263271, GBIF 8219807, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.