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Bothriechis aurifer (SALVIN, 1860)

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Higher TaxaViperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Yellow-blotched Palm Pit Viper
G: Guatemala-Lanzenotter, Gelbgefleckte Lanzenotter
S: Nauyaca Manchada 
SynonymThamnocenchris aurifer SALVIN 1860: 459
Thamnocenchris aurifer SALVIN 1861: 325
Bothrops aurifer — MÜLLER 1878: 401
Lachesis aurifer BOULENGER 1896: 568
Bothrops nigroviridis aurifer — BARBOUR & LOVERIDGE 1929
Trimeresurus nigroviridis aurifer — SMITH 1941: 62
Bothrops nigroviridis aurifer — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 52
Bothriechis aurifer — LINER 1994
Bothriechis aurifer — WELCH 1994: 29
Bothriechis aurifer — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 243
Bothriechis aurifer — WALLACH et al. 2014: 107 
DistributionMexico (Chiapas), Guatemala

Type locality: Cobán, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala.  
Reproductionovovivparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1946.1.17.71 (status in BMNH unclear) 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (2132 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentVenomous!

Habitat: forests, fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018)

Distribution: see map of localities in Hidalgo-García et al. 2024. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin aurifer, gold-bearing. [“...Green, with a dorsal series of orange spots edged with black...”]. 
References
  • Arrivillaga, C; Villatoro-Casnañeda, M; Mármol-Kattán, A & Rosito-Prado, I 2018. Bothriechis aurifer (Yellow-blotched Palm Pitviper) Reproduction. Herpetological Review 49 (2): 334 - get paper here
  • 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
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, Vol. 3. London (Taylor & Francis), xiv + 727 pp. - get paper here
  • Campbell, J.A. & Lamar, W.W. 1989. The Venomous Reptiles of Latin America. Comstock Publishing/Cornell University Press, Ithaca
  • Garrett, C.M. 1997. Eternal spring: a glimpse of Guatemala. Fauna 1 (1): 54-63
  • Guerra Centeno, Dennis; Héctor Fuentes Rousselin & David Morán Villatoro 2012. Serpientes de Guatemala: Guía para didentificación de especies. Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, 186 pp.
  • Harrington, Sean M; Jordyn M de Haan, Lindsey Shapiro, Sara Ruane 2018. Habits and characteristics of arboreal snakes worldwide: arboreality constrains body size but does not affect lineage diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125 (1): 61–71 - get paper here
  • Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp
  • Hidalgo-García JA, Luna-Reyes R, Clause AG, Cedeño-Vázquez JR, García González J, López S 2024. Geographic distribution and conservation of Bothriechis aurifer (Salvin, 1860) (Squamata, Viperidae). Check List 20(4): 895-907 - get paper here
  • Johnson, Jerry D.; Vicente Mata-Silva, Elí García Padilla, and Larry David Wilson 2015. The Herpetofauna of Chiapas, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (3): 272–329. - get paper here
  • Köhler, G. 2008. Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 pp.
  • Laita, Mark 2013. Serpentine. Abrams and PQ Blackwell, Auckland, New Zealand, 200 unnumbered pages
  • McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp.
  • Meléndez, L. 2007. Fortschritte beim Reptilia-Projekt zum Schutz der Guatemala-Skorpionskrustenechse. Reptilia (Münster) 12 (63): 6-8 - get paper here
  • Meléndez, Lester 2008. Die Bothriechis-Arten Guatemalas – Daten zur Biologie und Nachzucht. Draco 8 (33): 44-49 - get paper here
  • Monzel, Markus & Wolfgang Wüster 2008. Neotropische Grubenottern – Evolution, Biogeographie und Ökologie. Draco 8 (33): 4-27 - get paper here
  • Müller, F. 1878. Über einige seltene und neue Reptilien aus Guatemala. Verh. Naturf. Ges. Basel, 6: 390-411 - get paper here
  • Salvin, Osbert 1862. On two new reptiles from Guatemala. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1862: 325-326 - get paper here
  • Salvin,O. 1860. On the reptiles of Guatemala. Proc. zool. Soc. London 1860: 451-461 - get paper here
  • Schmidt, D. & Kunz, K. 2005. Ernährung von Schlangen. Natur und Tier Verlag, Münster, 159 pp. - get paper here
  • Smith, H.M. 1941. Notes on Mexican snakes of the genus Trimeresurus. Zoologica 26: 61-64. - get paper here
  • Taggart, Travis W., Brian I. Crother, and Mary E. White 2001. Palm-pitviper (Bothriechis) phylogeny, mtDNA, and consilience. Cladistics 17: 355-370 - 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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