Bothrocophias colombianus (RENDAHL & VESTERGREN, 1940)
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Bothrocophias colombianus
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| Higher Taxa | Viperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Colombian Lancehead, Munchique's Rufous Lancehead S: Equis Colorada de Munchique S: Equis Gata, Equis Amarilla del Valle del Cauca [rhombeatus] E: Cat Lancehead, Cauca Valley Yellow Lancehead [rhombeatus] |
| Synonym | Botrops rhomboatus [sic] GARCIA 1896: 20 (nomen dubium) Botrops rhombeatus — GARCIA 1896: 20 (plate 2) Bothrops microphthalmus colombianus RENDAHL & VESTERGREN 1940: 15 Trimeresurus microphthalmus — SCHMIDT & WALKER 1943 Bothrops microphthalmus colombianus — PETERS et al. 1970: 49 Porthidium colombianum — GOLAY et al. 1993: 84 Bothrops microphthalmus colombianus — WELCH 1994: 33 Bothrops colombianus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 260 Bothrocophias colombianus — CAMPBELL & LAMAR 2004 Bothrocophias colombianus — CASTRO et al. 2005 Bothrops rhombeatus — FOLLECO-FERNANDEZ 2010 Bothrocophias colombianus — CARRASCO et al. 2012 Bothrops rhombeatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 119 Bothrocophias colombianus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 113 |
| Distribution | W Colombia (incl. Cauca), elevation 1400-2300 m Type locality: La Costa, Cauca, Colombia rhombeatus: Colombia (Valle del Cauca); Type locality: "a orillas de los rios afluentes del Cauca." |
| Reproduction | ovovivparous |
| Types | Holotype: NRM (NHRM) 23114. Holotype: undesignated, none given by GARCIA 1896 [rhombeatus] |
| Diagnosis | |
| Comment | Venomous! Phylogenetics: FENWICK et al. 2009 expect that B. colombianus is part of the Bothrocophias clade based on external morphology, although limited sampling did not allow them to include it in the phylogeny. Synonymy: McDiarmid et al. 1999 placed Botrops rhomboatus “tentatively” in the synonymy of B. colombianus. FOLLECO-FERNANDEZ 2010 revalidated Bothrops rhombeatus GARCIA 1896, but Ramírez-Chaves & Solari 2014 declared the name unavailable, based on the lack of a type specimen and its uncertain status, and suspect that it may be a synonym of B. asper. B. rhombeatus nested within several clades of B. asper in a phylogenomic study by Salazar‐Valenzuela et al. 2019. However, they did not propose any taxonomic changes. Distribution: See map in FOLLECO-FERNANDEZ 2010. Reports from ANTIOQUIA (Nicéforo María, 1975) most likely represent individual introductions from Cauca to Antioquia (Luis E Vera Pérez, pers. comm. 7 May 2013). |
| Etymology | Named after the type locality. |
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