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Bothriechis schlegelii BERTHOLD, 1846

                                      
 

Higher Taxa

Viperidae, Serpentes (snakes

Subspecies

Common Name

E: Eyelash Viper
G: Schlegels Lanzenotter, Greifschwanz-Lanzenotter
S: Víbora de pestañas, Serpiente Loro

Synonym

Trigonocephalus schlegelii BERTHOLD 1846: 147
Lachesis nitidus GÜNTHER 1859: 414
Bothrops Schlegeli — JAN 1863: 127
Bothrops (Teleuraspis) nigroadspersus STEINDACHNER 1870: 348
Thanatophis torvus POSADA ARANGO 1889: 345
Lachesis schlegelii BOULENGER 1896
Trimeresurus schlegelii - BOCOURT 1909 (fide VILLA et al. 1988)
Bothrops schlegeli TAYLOR 1951: 173
Bothrops schlegelii supraciliaris TAYLOR 1954
Bothrops schlegelli — HOGE 1966: 134 (in error)
Bothrops schlegelii — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 54
Bothriechis schlegelii - SAVAGE & VILLA 1986
Bothrops schlegelii - VILLA et al. 1988
Bothriechis schlegelii — LINER 1994
Bothriechis supraciliaris — SOLORZANO et al. 1998
Bothriechis schlegelii — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 246
Bothriechis supraciliaris — PORRAS & SOLORZANO 2006
Bothriechis supraciliaris — CASTOE et al. 2006
Bothriechis schlegelii — CARRERA et al. 2009

Location

Costa Rica, Mexico (Liner 1994), Guatemala, Honduras [HR 30: 112], Nicaragua (JANSEN & KÖHLER 2003), Ecuador (Manabí [HR 32: 58]), Venezuela (KORNACKER 1999), Peru (LEHR 2002); elevation (Honduras): 860 m, 0-2500 m (Colombia)

Type locality: Popayan, Colombia

Holotype

Comment

Venomous! Very variable with red, yellow and greenish forms. See color plate 90 in VILLA et al. 1988, Penner (2001) and Hofmann (2003). Synonymy partly after PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970.

Relative abundance in Honduras: rare

Max. total length: 60 cm

Etymology: Named after Hermann Schlegel (1804-1884), German herpetologist.

Habitat: forests

References
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  • Alviani, S. 2005. The snake hunter. Reptilia (GB) (40): 76-79
  • Berthold,A.A. 1846. Nachr. Univ. Gesell. Wiss. Göttingen 1846: 147
  • Campbell, J.A. & Lamar, W.W. 1989. The Venomous Reptiles of Latin America. Comstock Publishing/Cornell University Press, Ithaca
  • Castoe, Todd A. and Christopher L. Parkinson 2006. Bayesian mixed models and the phylogeny of pitvipers (Viperidae: Serpentes). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39 (1): 91-110
  • Castro-Herrera, F. & Vargas-Salinas, F. 2008. Anfibios y reptiles en el departamento del Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Biota Colombiana 9 (2): 251 - 277
  • Günther,A. 1859. Second list of cold-blooded vertebrata collected by Mr. Fraser in the Andes of Western Ecuador. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1859: 402-422
  • Hofmann, J. 2003. Bothriechis schlegelii (Berthold 1846) - die Greifschwanzlanzenotter in costa Rica und im Terrarium. Draco 4 (15): 64-72
  • Hoge,A.R. 1966. Preliminary account on Neotropical Crotalinae (Serpentes: Viperidae). Mem. Inst. Butantan 32 [1965]: 109-184
  • Jan,G. 1863. Elenco Sistematico degli Ofidi descriti e disegnati per l'Iconografia Generale. Milano, A. Lombardi. vii + 143 pp.
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  • Kuch, Ulrich;Freire, Antonio 1995. Bemerkungen zur geographischen Verbreitung und Variabilität Schlegels Palmen-Lanzenotter, Bothriechis schlegelii (Berthold, 1846), in Ecuador (Squamata: Serpentes: Viperidae). Herpetozoa 8 (1/2): 49-58
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