Atropoides picadoi

Taxobox
name = "Atropoides picadoi"

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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Serpentes
familia = Viperidae
subfamilia = Crotalinae
genus = "Atropoides"
species = "A. picadoi"
binomial = "Atropoides picadoi"
binomial_authority = (Dunn, 1939)
synonyms = * "Trimeresurus nummifer" - Dunn, 1939
* "Bothrops picadoi" - H.M. Smith & Taylor, 1945
* "Porthidium picadoi" - Campbell & Lamar, 1989
* "A" ["tropoides"] . "picadoi" - Werman, 1992McDiarmid 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: Picado's jumping pitviper.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" is a venomous pitviper species found in Central America. No subspecies are currently recognized.ITIS|ID=586170|taxon="Atropoides picadoi"|year=2007|date=14 September]

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".

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."

ee also

* List of crotaline species and subspecies
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* Snakebite

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