Porthidium lansbergii

Taxobox
name = "Porthidium lansbergii"

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image_caption = "P. l. rozei"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Serpentes
familia = Viperidae
subfamilia = Crotalinae
genus = "Porthidium"
species = "P. lansbergii"
binomial = "Porthidium lansbergii"
binomial_authority = (Schlegel, 1841)
synonyms = * "Trigonocephalus lansbergii" - Schlegel, 1841
* "T" ["eleuraspis"] . "Castelnaui" Var. "brachystoma" - Cope, 1860
* "T" ["eleuraspis"] . "Lansbergi" - Cope, 1860
* "Bothriechis brachystoma" - Cope, 1860
* "Bothrops lansbergii" - Günther, 1863
* "B" ["othrops"] . "Boussingaultii" - Jan, 1863
* "B" ["othrops"] . "Lansbergi" - Jan, 1863
* "Porthidium lansbergii" - Cope, 1871
* "Bothriopsis brachystoma" - Cope, 1871
* "B" ["othriopsis"] . "castelnavi" var. "brachystoma" - Cope, 1871
* "Bothrops brachystoma" - Müller, 1880
* "Bothriopsis br" ["achystoma"] . - Müller, 1880
* "Brothriopsis brachystoma" - Cope, 1887
* "Teleuraspis castelnaudi" var. "brachystoma" - Cope, 1887
* "Th" ["anatos"] . "Lansbergii" - Posada Arango, 1889
* "Th" ["anatophis"] . "Lansbergi" - Posada Arango, 1889
* "Th" ["anatos"] . "Boussingaultii" - Posada Arango, 1889
* "Th" ["anatophis"] . "Boussingaultii" - Posada Arango, 1889
* "Bothriechis lansbergii" - Günther, 1895
* "Lachesis lansbergii" - Boulenger, 1896
* "Lachesis brachystoma" - Boulenger, 1896
* "Trimeresurus brachystoma" - Mocquard, 1989
* "Bothriechis lansbergii" - Recinos, 1913
* "Lachesis lansbergi" - Griffin, 1916
* "Bothrops lansbergii venezuelensis" - Roze, 1959
* "B" ["othrops"] . "l" ["ansbergii"] . "lansbergii" - Roze, 1959
* "Porthidium lansbergii" - Campbell & Lamar, 1989
* "Porthidium lansbergii lansbergii" - 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: Lansberg's hognosed 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.] ""Porthidium lansbergii" is a venomous pitviper species found in Central and South America. Currently, four subspecies are recognized, including the nominate subspecies described here.ITIS|ID=634901|taxon="Porthidium lansbergii"|year=2007|date=20 September]

Description

Adults average 30-50 cm in length with a maximum of 90 cm. Terrestrial and moderately slender.

Common names

Lansberg's hognosed pitviper. Also called "patoco" in Colombia and Panama.

Geographic range

Found in extreme eastern Central America in the xeric coastal lowlands of central and eastern Panama. In northern South America in the Atlantic lowlands of Colombia and northern Venezuela, as well as the Pacific lowlands of Ecuador. The type locality given is "les environs de Turbaco [Department de Bolívar] , en Colombie" According to Amaral (1929), likely from Tumaco.

According to the range map provided by Campbell & Lamar (2004), the subspecies "P. l. rozei" and "P. l. lansbergii" intergrade in the northern part of the Guajira Peninsula.

ubspecies

Taxonomy

Capmbell & Lamar (2004) consider "P. l. arcosae" a full species.

ee also

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* Snakebite

References

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