Bothrops bilineatus smaragdinus
Appearance
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Bothrops bilineatus smaragdinus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Viperidae |
Genus: | Bothrops |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | B. b. smaragdinus
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Trinomial name | |
Bothrops bilineatus smaragdinus (Hoge, 1966)
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Synonyms | |
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- 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
[edit]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
[edit]Found in South America in the Amazon regions of Southern Colombia (Departments of Putumayo, Amazonas, Southern 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
[edit]- ^ 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).
- ^ "Bothrops bilineatus smaragdinus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 12 August 2008.
- ^ 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.
External links
[edit]- Bothrops bilineatus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 12 August 2008.