Porthidium volcanicum SOLÓRZANO, 1995

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Higher Taxa	Viperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	G: Costa-Rica-Stülpnasenotter
Synonym	Porthidium volcanicum SOLÓRZANO 1995 Porthidium volcanicum — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 323 Porthidium volcanicum — SAVAGE 2002 Porthidium volcanicum — WALLACH et al. 2014: 577
Distribution	Costa Rica, Panama Type locality: "Ujarnis de Buenos Aires (Valle del General, suoeste de la provincia de Puntarenas, Costa Rica)."
Reproduction	ovoviviparous
Types	Holotype: UCR 11642.
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Comment	Venomous! Synonymy: previous records of P. lansbergii from W Panama to be based on individuals of Porthidium volcanicum. Habitat: terrestrial
Etymology	Named after Spanish volcanicum, pertaining/belonging to volcanoes. [“...El término utilizado se refiere al nombre de la localidad de donde provienen la mayoría de los ejemplares (Volcán de Buenos Aires, provincia de Puntarenas)...”].
References	Dwyer, Q. & Van Den Burgh, J. 2012. Geographic distribution: Porthidium volcanicum (Costa Rican hog-nosed pitviper). Herpetological Review 43: 308 - 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. OLIVEIRA-DALLAND, LUIS G.; LAURA R.V. ALENCAR, LEANDRO R. TAMBOSI, PAOLA A. CARRASCO, RHETT M. RAUTSAW, JESUS SIGALA-RODRIGUEZ, GUSTAVO SCROCCHI & MARCIO MARTINS. 2022. Conservation gaps for Neotropical vipers: Mismatches between protected areas, species richness and evolutionary distinctiveness. Biological Conservation 275(109750). - get paper here Porras, L.W. & Solórzano, A. 2006. Die Schlangen Costa Ricas. Reptilia (Münster) 11 (61): 20-27 - get paper here Porras, L.W. & Solórzano, A. 2006. Costa Rica’s venomous snakes. Reptilia (GB) (48): 11-17 - get paper here RUIZ-CAMPOS, MARCO; LIBIA SANZ, FABIÁN BONILLA, MAHMOOD SASA, BRUNO LOMONTE, FAUSTO ZARUMA-TORRES, MARIA TERÁN, JULIÁN FERNÁNDEZ, JUAN J. CALVETE, CLEÓPATRA A. S. CALDEIRA & SAULO L. DA SILVA. 2021. Venomics of the poorly studied hognosed pitvipers Porthidium arcosae and Porthidium volcanicum. Journal of Proteomics 249: 104379. - get paper here Sasa, M., Arias, E., & Chaves, G. 2025. Annotated list of amphibians and reptiles of Costa Rica: The role of the Museum of Zoology in cataloging the country’s herpetological diversity. Revista de Biología Tropical, 73(S2): e64536-e64536 - get paper here Savage, J.M. 2002. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Herpetofauna Between Two Continents, Between Two Seas. University of Chicago Press, 934 pp. [review in Copeia 2003 (1): 205] Solorzano, A. 1994. Una nueva especie de serpiente venenosa terrestre del genero Porthidium (Serpentes: Viperidae), del Suroeste de Costa Rica. Revista de Biologia Tropical 42: 695-701 - get paper here Solorzano, A. 2004. Serpientes de Costa Rica - Snakes of Costa Rica. Editorial INBio, Costa Rica, 792 pp. 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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