Bothrops bilineatus
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Material examined. Field observation; (13°25′38″S, 069° 36′42″W), 22.IX.2013.
Identification. A small pitviper, SVL maximum 365– 840 mm in males and 555 mm in females. It can be identified by dorsal scales uniformly keeled but not tuberculated; 27–35 scale rows at mid-body; single anal plate. Dorsum pale green, with scattered black spots. Venter cream to white with a broken pale yellow paraventral stripe. This snake is arboreal with a prehensile tail. There are no similar pitviper species nearby. Some green colubrids such as Philodryas viridissimus, Liophis typhlus and the boid Corallus batessi could be confused, but they differ by lacking loreal pits and having labial pits respectively (Roze 1966, Duellman 1978, 2005, Dixon and Soini 1986, Pérez-Santos and Moreno 1988, Harvey et al. 2005).
Distribution. Bothrops bilineatus is widely distributed in Amazonia in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela (Harvey et al. 2005, Uetz and Hošek 2019).
Remarks. The individual was found dead in an advanced stage of decomposition, so it was not collected.
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- Journal article: 10.15560/15.5.773 (DOI)
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- Wied-Neuwied
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- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
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- Squamata
- Family
- Viperidae
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- Bothrops
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- bilineatus
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- species
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- Bothrops bilineatus (Wied-Neuwied, 1821) sec. Llanqui, Salas & Oblitas, 2019
References
- Roze JA (1966) La taxonomia y zoogeografia de los ofidios de Ven- ezuela. Ediciones de la Biblioteca. Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, 362 pp.
- Duellman WE (1978) The biology of an equatorial herpetofauna in amazonian Ecuador. Miscellaneous Publications. Museum of Natural History University of Kansas 65: 352.
- Duellman WE (2005) Cusco Amazonico. The lives of amphibians and reptiles in an Amazonian Rianforest. Comstock Publishing, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 433 pp.
- Dixon JR, Soini P (1986) The Reptiles of the Upper Amazon Basin, Iquitos Region, Peru. Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, 154 pp.
- Perez-Santos C, Moreno A (1988) Ofidios de Colombia. Museo Regio- nale di Scienze Naturali, Turin, Italy, 517 pp.
- Harvey MB, Aparicio J, Gonzales Alvarez L (2005) Revision of the venomous snakes of Bolivia. II: the pitvipers (Serpentes: Viperidae). Annals of Carnegie Museum 74 (1): 1 - 37. https: // doi. org / 10.2992 / 0097 - 4463 (2005) 74 [1: rotvso] 2.0. co; 2
- Orejas-Miranda BR (1969) Tres nuevos Leptotyphlops (Reptilia: Serpentes). Comunicaciones Zoologicas del Museo de Historia Natural de Montevideo 10 (124): 1 - 11.
- Uetz P, Hosek J (2019) The Reptile Database. http: // www. reptiledatabase. org. Accessed on: 2019 - 5 - 1.