Cerrophidion sasai JADIN, TOWNSEND, CASTOE & CAMPBELL, 2012

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Higher Taxa	Viperidae, Crotalinae, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Costa Rica Montane Pitviper
Synonym	Cerrophidion sasai JADIN, TOWNSEND, CASTOE & CAMPBELL 2012 Cerrophidion sasai — WALLACH et al. 2014: 156
Distribution	Costa Rica, W Panama Type locality: San Ramos de Tres Ríos, Departamento de San Jose, Costa Rica.
Reproduction	viviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022)
Types	Holotype: UTA R-51399, Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center, University of Texas at Arlington; an adult male, collected on 8 November 2001 by M. Sasa.
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Comment	Synonymy: this species has been previously considered as C. godmani. Distribution: see map in JADIN et al. 2012
References	Jadin, R.C., Townsend, J.H., Castoe, T.A. & Campbell, J.A. 2012. Cryptic diversity in disjunct populations of Middle American Montane Pitvipers: a systematic reassessment of Cerrophidion godmani. Zoologica Scripta doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00547.x - get paper here Sasa, M., Arias, E., & Chaves, G. 2025. Annotated list of amphibians and reptiles of Costa Rica: The role of the Museum of Zoology in cataloging the country’s herpetological diversity. Revista de Biología Tropical, 73(S2): e64536-e64536 - get paper here Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp. Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
External links	National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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