Atropoides
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| Species: | A. picadoi
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| Atropoides picadoi (Dunn, 1939)
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- Common names: Picado's jumping pitviper.[3]
Atropoides picadoi is a venomous pitviper species found in Central America. No subspecies are currently recognised.[4]
Description
Adults commonly reach 75-95 cm in length with a maximum of 120.2 cm. Extremely stout, though not quite so much as A. n. mexicanus.[3]
Geographic range
Found in the mountains of Costa Rica and western Panama at 50-1500 m altitude. This includes the Cordillera de Tilarán, the Cordillera Central and the Cordillera de Talamanca. The type locality given is "La Palma, [San José Province], Costa Rica, 4500 feet."[2]
See also
- List of crotaline species and subspecies
- Crotalinae by common name
- Crotalinae by taxonomic synonyms
- Snakebite
References
- ^ http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/203657/0
- ^ 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).
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Atropoides picadoi". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 14 September 2007.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Atropoides.
- Atropoides picadoi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 14 September 2007.