Which newly discovered reptile species has been named after a character from the Harry Potter series?

'Trimeresurus salazar', commonly known as Salazar's pit viper, is a venomous, green pit viper, discovered in the Eastern Himalayan region of India in 2019. It created a stir when it was famously named after Salazar Slytherin, the founder of Slytherin house, from the Harry Potter series.

The species is sexually dichromatic; the males have reddish-orange and yellow-orange stripes and a rusty red-orange tail which are absent in females. Its long, thin body can reach upto 363 to 415 mm (14.3 to 16.3 inches) in length.

Salazar's pit viper is a nocturnal snake and survives on a diet of lizards, amphibians, birds, rodents, and other small mammals.

Their habitat is under threat from human development activities.