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Bothriechis nigroviridis PETERS, 1859

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Higher TaxaViperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Black-speckled Palm Pit Viper
G: Schwarzgelbe Palmenlanzenotter 
SynonymBothriechis 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 
DistributionCosta Rica, W Panama

elevation up to 3000 m.

Type locality: Volcán Barba, Costa Rica.  
Reproductionovovivparous 
TypesSyntypes: ZMB 2986-2988. 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1284 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentVenomous!

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. 
EtymologyNamed 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...“]. 
References
  • Barbour,T. & LOVERIDGE,A. 1929. On some Hondurian and Guatemalan snakes with the description of a new arboreal pit viper of the genus Bothrops. Bull. Antivenin Inst. America 3: 1-3
  • Bogert,C.M. 1968. A new arboreal pit viper of the genus Bothrops from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, México. American Museum Novitates 2341: 1-14 - get paper here
  • Campbell, J.A. & Lamar, W.W. 1989. The Venomous Reptiles of Latin America. Comstock Publishing/Cornell University Press, Ithaca
  • DOAN, TIFFANY M.; ANDREW J. MASON, TODD A. CASTOE, MAHMOOD SASA & CHRISTOPHER L. PARKINSON 2016. A cryptic palm-pitviper species (Squamata: Viperidae: Bothriechis) from the Costa Rican highlands, with notes on the variation within B. nigroviridis. Zootaxa 4138 (2): 271–290 - get paper here
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