Many Of Us Enjoy The Harry Potter Films,

and have a favorite character,

and if like myself yours happens to be Salazar Slytherin, who was one of the four founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the world of Harry Potter, you might be intrested to konw that a snake discovered in 2019 has just been named after Salazar Slytherin, it is the dream of most zoologist to have a creature named after them, well in this case Salazar Slytherin has succeeded, a new species of snake has been named in his honor, and it's only appropriate: the species Trimeresurus salazar translates to Salazar’s pit viper, the newest member of the genus Trimeresurus Lacépède, which includes at least 48 species of pit viper distributed across east and southeast Asia, the snake is the fifth reptile discovered by scientists in India’s northern state of Arunachal Pradesh in the past year or so, joining three other snakes and a tortoise also native to the region, a paper published in the April issue of Zoosystematics and Evolution describes the find, made by a team of researchers led by Zeeshan Mirza, a biologist at India’s National Centre for Biological Sciences, the genus Trimeresurus has been described as "charismatic, venomous serpents.” you can read more about the snake and its name at Smithsonian, image credit: Mirza et al., Zoosystematics and Evolution, 2020, as it happens we, that is Neil and myself, along with our guide Anil, travelled to Arunachal Pradesh, as well as Assam, Meghalaya, Guwahati, Shillong and the Kaziranga National Park, looking for new spices of fish many years ago, now that was great fun!