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Bothrops barnetti PARKER, 1938

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Higher TaxaViperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Barnett's Lancehead 
SynonymBothrops barnetti PARKER 1938: 447
Trimeresurus barnetti — SCHMIDT & WALKER 1943
Bothrops barnetti — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 44
Bothrops barnetti — WELCH 1994: 33
Bothrops barnetti — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 258
Bothrops barnetti — CARRASCO et al. 2012
Bothrops barnetti — WALLACH et al. 2014: 116 
DistributionN Peru (on the pacific coast between Lobitos and Talara/Piura, and the Rio Moche/La Libertad)

Type locality: From mouths of Quebradas Honda and Perines, between Lobitos and Talara, northern Peru.  
Reproductionovovivparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1946.1.18.71, male (formerly BMNH 1926.3.24.40). Paratypes: BMNH 1931.10.7.7, female, BMNH 1932.9.5.13, male. 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (2594 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentVenomous!

Incertae sedis fide FENWICK et al. 2009 but closely related to B. pictus. 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Burgess Barnett (1888-1944), Curator of Reptiles, London Zoo (1932-1937). He also worked at the Rangoon Zoological Gardens, Burma (Myanmar) (1938) until his death in Bengal. He also collected the types of this species in Peru. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Campbell, J.A. & Lamar, W.W. 1989. The Venomous Reptiles of Latin America. Comstock Publishing/Cornell University Press, Ithaca
  • Chávez, G. 2007. Looking for Macanches in the Dry Forest of Peru. Part 2: Bothrops barnetti. Reptilia (GB) (52): - get paper here
  • Chávez, G. & Venegas, P. 2007. Looking for Macanches in the dry forest of Peru. Reptilia (GB) (51): 54-59 - get paper here
  • FENWICK, ALLYSON M.; RONALD L. GUTBERLET JR, JENNAFER A. EVANS, CHRISTOPHER L. PARKINSON 2009. Morphological and molecular evidence for phylogeny and classification of South American pitvipers, genera Bothrops, Bothriopsis, and Bothrocophias (Serpentes: Viperidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 156 (3): 617-640 - get paper here
  • McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp.
  • Parker,H.W. 1938. The vertical distribution of some reptiles and amphibians in southern Ecuador. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (11) 2: 438-450 - get paper here
  • Schmidt,K.P. & WALKER Jr. ,W.F. 1943. Snakes of the Peruvian coastal region. Zool. Ser. Field Mus. nat. Hist., Chicago, 24: 297-327 - get paper here
  • Silva, Walter 2012. Haltung und Zucht der Sancarranca (Bothrops barnetti). Ophidia 6 (1): - 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.
 
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