Bothrops microphthalmus
| Bothrops microphthalmus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Viperidae |
| Subfamily: | Crotalinae |
| Genus: | Bothrops |
| Species: | B. microphthalmus |
| Binomial name | |
| Bothrops microphthalmus Cope, 1875 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Bothrops microphthalmus, or the small-eyed toad-headed pitviper, is a species of venomous snake in the family Viperidae.[2] The species is endemic to northwestern South America.[3]
Geographic range
B. microphthalmus is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia (countries listed from north to south).
The type locality is "between Balsa Puerto and Moyabamba, Peru".[1]
References
- 1 2 "Bothrocophias microphthalmus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ↑ McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
- ↑ "Bothrops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 3 November 2006.
Further reading
- Cope ED. 1875. "Report on the Reptiles brought by Professor James Orton from the middle and upper Amazon, and Western Peru". J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia (2) 8: 159-183. (Bothrops microphthalmus, new species, pp. 182-183).
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