Bothrops medusa (STERNFELD, 1920)

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Higher Taxa	Viperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Venezuela Forest Pit Viper S: Viejita; Veinticuatro
Synonym	Lachesis medusa STERNFELD 1920 Bothriopsis medusa — WELCH 1994: 31 ? Bothrops eneydae SANDNER MONTILLA 1976 ? Bothrops eneydae — SANDNER MONTILLA 1982 Bothrops medusa — SALOMÃO et al. 1997 Bothriopsis medusa — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 248 Bothrops medusa — WÜSTER et al. 2002 Bothriopsis medusa — FENWICK et al. 2009 Bothrops medusa — CARRASCO et al. 2012 Bothriopsis medusa — WALLACH et al. 2014: 110
Distribution	Venezuela (Aragua, Carabobo) Type locality: Caracas, Venezuela.
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Holotype: SMF 21202, according to Mertens, 1967
Diagnosis
Comment	Venomous!
Etymology	Named after the Medusa in Greek mythology, one of the Gorgons, female monsters whose hair was made up of snakes.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Carrasco, P.A., C.I. Mattoni, G.C. Leynaud, and G.J. Scrocchi. 2012. Morphology, phylogeny and taxonomy of South American bothropoid pitvipers (Serpentes, Viperidae). Zoologica Scripta 41: 109-124 - get paper here McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp. Natera-Mumaw, Marco; Luis Felipe Esqueda-González & Manuel Castelaín-Fernández 2015. Atlas Serpientes de Venezuela. Santiago de Chile, Dimacofi Negocios Avanzados S.A., 456 pp. - get paper here RIVAS, GILSON A.; CÉSAR R. MOLINA, GABRIEL N. UGUETO, TITO R. BARROS, CÉSAR L. BAR- RIO-AMORÓS & PHILIPPE J. R. KOK 2012. Reptiles of Venezuela: an updated and commented checklist. Zootaxa 3211: 1–64 - get paper here Roze, J. A. 1952. Colección de reptiles del Profesor Scorza, de Venezuela. Acta Biologica Venezuelica 1 (5): 93-114 Señaris, J. Celsa; María Matilde Aristeguieta Padrón, Haidy Rojas Gil y Fernando J. M. Rojas-Runjaic 2018. Guía ilustrada de los anfibios y reptiles del valle de Caracas, Venezuela. Ediciones IVIC, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC). Caracas, Venezuela. 348 pp. Sternfeld, R. 1920. Eine neue Schlange der Gattung Lachesis aus Südamerika. Senckenbergiana, 2: 181-185 - 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.
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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