Bothriopsis bilineata smaragdinus

Taxobox
name = "Bothriopsis bilineata smaragdinus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Serpentes
familia = Viperidae
subfamilia = Crotalinae
genus = "Bothriopsis"
species = "B. bilineata"
subspecies = "B. b. smaragdinus"
trinomial = "Bothriopsis bilineata smaragdinus"
trinomial_authority = (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 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).]

:"Common names: (none).""Bothriopsis bilineata smaragdinus" is a venomous pitviper subspeciesITIS|ID=635151|taxon="Bothriopsis bilineata smaragdinus"|year=2008|date=12 August] found in the northern and western Amazon region of South America.

Description

Same as for "B. b. bilineata", 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).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.]

Geographic range

Found in South America in the Amazon regions of Colombia, southern Venezuela, northern and western Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. The type locality given is "upper Purús river, State Amazonas, Brasil."

ee also

* List of crotaline species and subspecies
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* Snakebite

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