sumua jenis tinggal di atas pohon.
tubuhnya ramping dan agak panjang, kepala berukuran agak besar dan berbentuk segitiga mencolok seperti mata tombak.
makanan mereka adalah kadal, cicak, bunglon, katak pohon, burung, dan mamalia kecil pohon.
mayoritas jenis berkembang biak dengan beranak (ovovivipar).mehrtens jm. 1987. living snakes of the world in color.
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isbn 0-486-26629-x.vogel, g. (2006) venomous snakes of asia/giftschlangen asiens.
terralog, edition chimaira, frankfurt am main.
saat ini diketahui jumlah spesies dari marga ini lebih dari 30 spesies.grismer, l.l., j.l. grismer &
j.a. mcguire (2006) a new species of pitviper of the genus popeia (squamata: viperidae) from pulau tioman, pahang, west malaysia.
zootaxa 1305: 1-19.kraus, f., mink, d.g., brown, w.m., 1996.
crotaline intergeneric relationships based on mitochondrial dna sequence data.
copeia, 1996, 763-773.malhotra, a., thorpe, r.s., 2004.
a phylogeny of four mitochondrial gene regions suggests a revised taxonomy for asian pitvipers (trimeresurus and ovophis).
molecular phylogenetics and evolution 32, 83-100.castoe, t.a., parkinson, c.l., 2006.
bayesian mixed models and the phylogeny of pitvipers (viperidae: serpentes) mol.
evol., 39, 91-110.david, patrick; vogel, gernot; dubois, alain.
on the need to follow rigorously the rules of the code for the subsequent designation of a nucleospecies (type species) for a nominal genus which lacked one: the case of the nominal genus trimeresurus lacpde, 1804 (reptilia: squamata: viperidae).
zootaxa 2992: 1-51.
trimeresurus albolabris (gray, 1842) - ular bangkai laut
trimeresurus andalasensis david, vogel, vijayakumar &
vidal, 2006 - mura andalas
trimeresurus andersonii theobald, 1868
trimeresurus barati regenass &
trimeresurus borneensis (peters, 1872) - mura kalimantan
trimeresurus brongersmai hoge, 1969
trimeresurus buniana (grismer, grismer &
trimeresurus cantori (blyth, 1846)
trimeresurus cardamomensis (malhotra, thorpe, mrinalini &
trimeresurus erythrurus (cantor, 1839)
trimeresurus fasciatus (boulenger, 1896) - mura belang tanah jampea
trimeresurus flavomaculatus (gray, 1842)
trimeresurus fucatus vogel, david &
trimeresurus gracilis oshima, 1920
trimeresurus gramineus (shaw, 1802)
trimeresurus gumprechti david, vogel, pauwels &
trimeresurus gunaleni vogel, david &
trimeresurus hageni (lidth de jeude, 1886) - mura hagen
trimeresurus honsonensis (grismer, ngo &
trimeresurus insularis kramer, 1977 - mura kapak
trimeresurus kanburiensis smith, 1943
trimeresurus labialis steindachner, 1867
trimeresurus macrolepis beddome, 1862
trimeresurus macrops kramer, 1977
trimeresurus malabaricus (jerdon, 1854)
trimeresurus malcolmi loveridge, 1938
trimeresurus mcgregori taylor, 1919
trimeresurus medoensis zhao, 1977
trimeresurus mutabilis stoliczka, 1870
trimeresurus nebularis vogel, david &
trimeresurus phuketensis sumontha, kunya, pauwels, nitikul &
trimeresurus popeiorum smith, 1937 - mura hijau pope
trimeresurus puniceus (boie, 1827) - bandotan pohon
trimeresurus purpureomaculatus (gray, 1832)
trimeresurus rubeus (malhotra, thorpe, mrinalini &
trimeresurus sabahi regenass &
trimeresurus schultzei griffin, 1909
trimeresurus septentrionalis kramer, 1977
trimeresurus sichuanensis (guo &
trimeresurus stejnegeri schmidt, 1925
trimeresurus strigatus gray, 1842
trimeresurus sumatranus (raffles, 1822) - mura hijau sumatera
trimeresurus tibetanus huang, 1982
trimeresurus toba david, petri, vogel &
doria, 2009 - mura toba
trimeresurus trigonocephalus (latreille, 1801)
trimeresurus truongsonensis orlov, ryabov, thanh &
trimeresurus venustus vogel, 1991
trimeresurus vogeli david, vidal &
trimeresurus wiroti trutnau, 1981
trimeresurus yunnanensis schmidt, 1925
lacpde, b.g. 1804. mmoire sur plusieurs animaux de la nouvelle-hollande dont la description n'a pas encore t publie.
annales du musum d'histoire naturelle, paris 4: 184-211.
(trimeresurus, p. 209.)
itis : trimeresurus lacpde, 1804
trimeresurus sp. @ the reptile database
cites: 'genus trimeresurus
iucn: trimeresurus sp.