Bothriechis hussaini ARTEAGA, PYRON, BATISTA, VIEIRA, MENESES-PELAYO, SMITH, BARRIO-AMORÓS, KOCH, AGNE, VALENCIA, BUSTAMANTE & HARRIS, 2024
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Bothriechis hussaini
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| Higher Taxa | Viperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Hussain’s Eyelash-Pitviper G: Hussains Lanzenotter S: Víbora de pestañas de Hussain; local name: Cabeza de candado, víbora sol (yellow morph) |
| Synonym | Bothriechis hussaini ARTEAGA, PYRON, BATISTA, VIEIRA, MENESES-PELAYO, SMITH, BARRIO-AMORÓS, KOCH, AGNE, VALENCIA, BUSTAMANTE, HARRIS 2024: 54 |
| Distribution | SW Ecuador, NW Peru Type locality: Buenaventura Biological Reserve, El Oro province, Ecuador (-3.65467, -79.76794; 524 m |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype: ZSFQ 5056 (Figs 29, 30g), subadult male collected on June 11, 2019. Paratypes: AMNH, DH- MECN, MZUA, ZSFQ |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Bothriechis hussaini sp. nov. is diagnosed based on the following combination of characters: (1) supraciliary scales low and granular to triangular; (2) anterior dorsal head scales smooth or barely keeled; (3) gular scales 1/2 size of chinshields; (4) 5–8 interoculolabials; (5) 2–3 canthals, which may be flat or slightly raised forming a ridge along the canthus; (6) loreal in contact with preocular; (7) yellow morph present; (8) dorsal bands black or pink or a combination of both; (9) opposing kidney shaped dorsal marks absent; (10) black speckles on dorsal scales present; (11) black speckling on ventral surfaces prominent; (12) ventral surfaces never entirely white; (13) iris green to yellow with fine black speckles, spots, or reticulations; (14) 21–23 dorsal scale rows at mid-body; (15) 140–151 ventrals in males, 147–153 in females; (16) maximum total length in males 608 mm, in females 656 mm. (Arteaga et al. 2024: 50) |
| Comment | Venomous! Synonymy: Reyes-Velasco 2024 argued that B. torvus, B. khwargi, B. klebbai, B. rasikusumorum, B. rahimi, B. nitidus, B. torvus, and B. hussaini should be synonymized with B. schlegelii, given their genetic and morphological similarity. Reyes-Velasco 2024 thus argued that only B. nigroadspersus, B. schlegelii, and B. supraciliaris should be maintained. We agree that the former 5 species are not very much differentiated from B. schlegelii and should be considered preliminary species. We have not adopted Reyes-Velasco’s revision yet as there are reportedly other studies in the process of publication, hence the taxonomy of Bothriechis is in flux and more changes are likely to come soon. |
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