Mixcoatlus melanurus (MÜLLER, 1924)

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Higher Taxa	Viperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Black-tailed Horned Pitviper S: Cornuda Cola Negra
Synonym	Trimeresurus melanurus MÜLLER 1924: 92 Bothrops melanura AMARAL 1930: 129 Trimeresurus garciai SMITH 1940: 62 Trimeresurus melanurus — SMITH 1941: 63 Trimeresurus garciae — TAYLOR 1944: 187 Porthidium melanurum — SMITH & SMITH 1976 Bothrops melanurus — HOGE & ROMANO-HOGE 1981:179 [1978/79] Porthidium melanurus — MEHRTENS 1987: 392 Porthidium melanurum — CAMPBELL & LAMAR 1989: 266 Porthidium melanurum — LINER 1994 Porthidium melanurum — WELCH 1994: 101 Ophryacus melanurus — GUTBERLET 1998: 200 Ophryacus melanurus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 314 Ophryacus melanurum — CASAS-ANDREU et al. 2004 Mixcoatlus melanurus — JADIN et al. 2011 Mixcoatlus melanurus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 457
Distribution	Mexico (S Puebla, NW Oaxaca), elevation 1600-2400 m. Type locality: “Mexico”
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Holotype: ZMB 26403
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Comment	Venomous! Synonymy: mostly after McDIARMID et al. 1999. Habitat: forests
Etymology	From the Greek melanós and ourá meaning tail in allusion to its coloration.
References	Campbell, J.A. & Lamar, W.W. 1989. The Venomous Reptiles of Latin America. Comstock Publishing/Cornell University Press, Ithaca Grünwald, Christoph I.; Jason M. Jones, Hector Franz-Chávez, and Iván T. Ahumada-Carrillo 2015. A new species of Ophryacus (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae) from eastern Mexico, with commentson the taxonomy of related pitvipers. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (4): 388 - get paper here Gutberlet, Ronald L. Jr. 1998. The phylogenetic position of the Mexican Black Tailed pitviper (Squamata: Viperidae: Crotalinae). Herpetologica 54 (2): 184-206. - get paper here Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp JADIN, ROBERT C.; ERIC N. SMITH and JONATHAN A. CAMPBELL 2011. Unravelling a tangle of Mexican serpents: a systematic revision of highland pitvipers. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163: 943–958 - get paper here Mata-Silva, Vicente, Jerry D. Johnson, Larry David Wilson and Elí García-Padilla. 2015. The herpetofauna of Oaxaca, Mexico: composition, physiographic distribution, and conservation status. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (1): 6–62 - 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. Müller, L. 1924. Ueber neue oder seltene Mittel- und Südamerikanische Amphibien und Reptilien. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 11 (1): 75-93 [1923] O’Shea, M. 2018. The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London, - get paper here Parkinson,C.L. 1999. Molecular systematics and biogeographical history of pitvipers as determined by mitochondrial ribosomal DNA sequences. Copeia 1999 (3): 576-586 - get paper here Smith, H.M. 1940. Descriptions of new lizards and snakes from México and Guatemala. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 53: 55-64. - get paper here Smith, H.M. 1941. Notes on Mexican snakes of the genus Trimeresurus. Zoologica 26: 61-64. - get paper here Smith,H.M. & Smith,R.B. 1976. Synopsis of the Herpetofauna of Mexico. Vol. III. Source analysis and index for Mexican reptiles. John Johnson, North Bennington, Vermont. 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. Woolrich-Piña, G. A., E. García-Padilla, D. L. DeSantis, J. D. Johnson, V. Mata-Silva, and L. D. Wilson 2017. The herpetofauna of Puebla, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation status. Mesoamerican Herpetology 4(4): 791–884 - get paper here
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