Bothriechis marchi

Taxobox
name = "Bothriechis marchi"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Serpentes
familia = Viperidae
subfamilia = Crotalinae
genus = "Bothriechis"
species = "B. marchi"
binomial = "Bothriechis marchi"
binomial_authority = (Barbour & Loveridge, 1929)
synonyms = * "Bothrops nigroviridis marchi" - Barbour & Loveridge, 1929
* "Trimeresurus nigroviridis marchi" - Clark & Inger, 1942
* "Bothrops nigroviridis marchii" - Peters & Orejas-Miranda, 1970
* "Bothriechis nigroviridis marchi" - Hoge & Romano-Hoge, 1983
* ["Bothrops nigroviridis"] "marchi" - Wilson & Meyer, 1982
* "Bothriechis aurifer marchi" - Burger, 1985
* "Bothriechis marchi" -Campbell & Lamar, 1989McDiarmid 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: Honduran palm-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.] ""Bothriechis marchi" is a venomous pitviper species found in Central America. No subspecies are currently recognized.ITIS|ID=634842|taxon="Bothriechis marchi"|year=2007|date=14 September]

Description

Adults often grow to more than 80 cm in length. The largest specimen on record was 96.8 cm. Green and relatively slender with a prehensile tail.

Geographic range

Found on the Atlantic versant of northwestern Honduras and eastern Guatemala. Occurs in mesic forest at elevations of 500-1500 m altitude. The type locality given is "the Gold Mines at Quimistan [probably El Oro, Municipio de Quimistán, in the Sierra de Espíritu Santo to the northwest of the town of Quimistán] , [Departamento de] Santa Barbara, Honduras Republic."

ee also

* List of crotaline species and subspecies
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* Snakebite

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