Bothriechis nigroviridis PETERS, 1859
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Bothriechis nigroviridis
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| Higher Taxa | Viperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Common Names | E: Black-speckled Palm Pit Viper G: Schwarzgelbe Palmenlanzenotter |
| Synonym | Bothriechis nigroviridis PETERS 1859: 278 Bothrops (Bothriechis) nigroviridis — MÜLLER 1878: 401 Bothrops nigroviridis nigroviridis — BARBOUR & LOVERIDGE 1929 Trimeresurus nigroviridis marchi — ROKOSKY 1942 Trimeresurus nigroviridis — POPE 1955 Bothrops rowleyi — BOGERT 1968 Bothrops nigroviridis — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 51 Bothrops nigroviridis nigroviridis — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 52 Bothrops marchi — WILSON & MEYER 1985 Bothrops nigroviridis — VILLA et al. 1988 Bothriechis nigroviridis — WELCH 1994: 29 Bothriechis nigroviridis — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 245 Bothriechis nigroviridis — MATTISON 2007: 222 Bothriechis nigroviridis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 108 |
| Distribution | Costa Rica, W Panama elevation up to 3000 m. Type locality: Volcán Barba, Costa Rica. |
| Reproduction | ovovivparous |
| Types | Syntypes: ZMB 2986-2988. |
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| Comment | Venomous! Similar species: B. nubestris. Illustrations: Color plate 88 in VILLA et al. 1988 and cover of LILLYWHITE 1987. Synonymy partly after PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970. Not listed in LINER 1994. Subspecies: The subspecies Bothriechis nigroviridis aurifer and B. nigroviridis marchi have been elevated to full species status. Not listed for Honduras by WILSON & MCCRANIE (2002). Phylogenomics: see Mason et al. 2019 for a phylogenomic analysis of the genus. Habitat: forests, fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018) Type species: Bothriechis nigroviridis PETERS 1859: 278 is the type species of the genus Bothriechis PETERS 1859. |
| Etymology | Named after Latin niger, nigra, nigrum = black or dark, and viridis = green, referring to the color of the species (even though it is often rather yellow than green). The genus was named after Greek bothros (βόθρος), any pit or hole + echi[dna] (έχιδνα), an adder, viper. ["...Eine Gattung, die zwischen Bothrops und Atropos steht, mit jener durch das grosse Supraorbitalschild, mit dieser durch h die Grösse, Lage und Begrenzung der Thränengruben, durch den Mangel der Kiele an den Schuppen des Vorderkopfes übereinstimmt...“]. |
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