Bothrocophias microphthalmus ( Cope, 1875 )

Nogueira, Cristiano C., Argôlo, Antonio J. S., Arzamendia, Vanesa, Azevedo, Josué A., Barbo, Fausto E., Bérnils, Renato S., Bolochio, Bruna E., Borges-Martins, Marcio, Brasil-Godinho, Marcela, Braz, Henrique, Buononato, Marcus A., Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F., Colli, Guarino R., Costa, Henrique C., Franco, Francisco L., Giraudo, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Rodrigo C., Guedes, Thaís, Hoogmoed, Marinus S., Marques, Otavio A. V., Montingelli, Giovanna G., Passos, Paulo, Prudente, Ana L. C., Rivas, Gilson A., Sanchez, Paola M., Serrano, Filipe C., Silva Jr., Nelson J., Strüssmann, Christine, Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S., Zaher, Hussam, Sawaya, Ricardo J. & Martins, Marcio, 2019, Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna, South American Journal of Herpetology 14 (s 1), pp. 1-274 : 10

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scientific name

Bothrocophias microphthalmus ( Cope, 1875 )
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Type locality. Between Balso Puerto and Moyabamba, Peru .

Distribution. Known from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, mostly in Amazonia ( Plt. 51A). In Brazil, recorded from a single locality in western Amazonia ( Bernarde et al., 2012a; Plt. 51A) at low elevation ( Plt. 51B). Previous maps and taxonomy in Campbell and Lamar (2004). Observed in the field in forest ( Campbell and Lamar, 2004).

Bernarde P. S., Albuquerque S., Barros T. O., Turci L. C. B. 2012 a. Serpentes do estado de Rondonia, Brasil. Biota Neotropica 12: 154 - 182. DOI

Campbell J. A., Lamar W. W. 2004. The Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere. Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca.

Cope E. D. 1875. Report on the reptiles brought by Professor James Orton from the middle and upper Amazon and western Peru. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia N. S. 8: 159 - 183.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Viperidae

Genus

Bothrocophias