Bothriechis bicolor (BOCOURT, 1868)

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Higher Taxa	Viperidae, Crotalinae, Serpentes (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Guatemala Palm Pit Viper G: Zweifarbige Lanzenotter, Guatemala-Palmenlanzenotter
Synonym	Bothrops bicolor BOCOURT 1868: 202 Bothrops (Bothriechis) Bernoulli MÜLLER 1878: 399 Trimeresurus bicolor — MOCQUARD 1909: 948 Bothrops bicolor — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 44 ? Bothriechis ornatus JULIÁ & VARELA 1978 (fide VILLA et al. 1988) ? Bothrops ornatus - VILLA et al. 1988 Bothrops bicolor - VILLA et al. 1988 Bothriechis bicolor — LINER 1994 Bothriechis bicolor — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 244
Distribution	Mexico (SW Chiapas), Guatemala, along the Pacific versant of the southern Volcanic Cordillera, NW Honduras Type locality: Forests of St. Augustin, on western slope of Cordillera, Departamento de Sololá, Guatemala, 610 m elevation. Map legend: - Region according to the TDWG standard, not a precise distribution map. NOTE: TDWG regions are generated automatically from the text in the distribution field and this does not always work properly. We are working on it.
Types	Holotype: MNHN
Comment	Venomous! Synonymy partly after PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970. Habitat: forests
References	Bocourt,M.F. 1868. Descriptions de quelques crotaliens nouveaux appartenant au genre Bothrops, recueillis dans le Guatémala. Ann. Sci. Nat., Paris, Ser. 5, (Zool.) 10: 201-202 - get paper here Campbell, J.A. & Lamar, W.W. 1989. The Venomous Reptiles of Latin America. Comstock Publishing/Cornell University Press, Ithaca Juliá, J., & VARELA, J. M. 1978. Una Bothrops de México, nueva para la ciencia. Mem. Primer Congr. Nac. Zool., 9-12 Oct 1977, Chapingo, Mex. Esc. Nac. Agric. (Univ. Auton. Ch.), Chapingo Mex.: 209-210. McCranie J R 2011. The snakes of Honduras. SSAR, Salt Lake City, 725 pp. McDiarmid,R.W.; Campbell,J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp. Meléndez, Lester 2008. Die Bothriechis-Arten Guatemalas – Daten zur Biologie und Nachzucht. Draco 8 (33): 44-49 - get paper here Mertens, R. 1960. The World of Amphibians and Reptiles. McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 207 pp. Müller, F. 1878. Über einige seltene und neue Reptilien aus Guatemala. Verh. Naturf. Ges. Basel, 6: 390-411 - get paper here Pachmann, A. 2012. IN 5 JAHREN UM DIE WELT: Mit den Besten unterwegs Reptilia (Münster) 17 (97): 18-19 - get paper here Peters, James A.; Donoso-Barros, Roberto & Orejas-Miranda, Braulio 1970. Catalogue of the Neotropical Squamata: Part I Snakes. Part II Lizards and Amphisbaenians. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 297: 347 pp. - get paper here Villa, J., Wilson, L.D., Johnson, J.D. 1988. Middle American Herpetology - A Bibliographic Checklist. University of Missouri Press
External links	IUCN Red List - Bothriechis bicolor - Least Concern, LC http://www.travellog.com/guatemala/ikbolay/bothriechisbicolor.html Google images Profile of Bothriechis bicolor on Reptarium

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