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Bothrops bilineatus smaragdinus

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Bothrops bilineatus smaragdinus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Viperidae
Genus: Bothrops
Species:
Subspecies:
B. b. smaragdinus
Trinomial name
Bothrops bilineatus smaragdinus
(Hoge, 1966)
Synonyms
  • Bothrops bilineatus smaragdinus - Hoge, 1966
  • Bothriopsis bilineatus smaragdina - Campbell & Lamar, 1989
  • B[othriechis]. bilineata smaragdina - Schätti, Kramer & Touzet, 1990
  • Bothriechis bilineatus smaragdinus - Schätti & Kramer, 1993 [1]
Common names: (Two-striped forest pitviper).

Bothrops bilineatus smaragdinus is a venomous pitviper subspecies[2] found in the northern and western Amazon region of South America.

Description

Same as for B. b. bilineatus, except that it lacks any dark vertical stripes on the supralabial scales and its green dorsal ground color is only patterned only with a peppering of black specks (no tan or reddish brown spots present).[3]

Geographic range

Found in South America in the Amazon regions of Southern Colombia (Departments of Putumayo Department, Amazonas Department, Caqueta and Guaviare), southern Venezuela, northern and western Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.[3] The type locality given is "upper Purús river, State Amazonas, Brasil."[1]

References

  1. ^ a b McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  2. ^ "Bothrops bilineatus smaragdinus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 12 August 2008.
  3. ^ a b Campbell JA, Lamar WW. 2004. The Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere. 2 volumes. Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca and London. 870 pp. 1500 plates. ISBN 0-8014-4141-2.