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Porthidium hespere (CAMPBELL, 1976)

IUCN Red List - Porthidium hespere - Data Deficient, DD
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Higher TaxaViperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Western Hognose Viper
S: Colmillo de Puerco 
SynonymBothrops hesperis CAMPBELL 1976
Porthidium hespere — CAMPBELL & LAMAR 1989: 316
Porthidium hespere — LINER 1994
Porthidium hespere — WELCH 1994: 101
Porthidium hespere — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 320
Porthidium hespere — WALLACH et al. 2014: 576 
DistributionMexico (Colima, Michoacan, W Guerrero)

Type locality: "on a west-facing slope of the foothills ca. 12 airline km NE of Tecoman, Municipio de Ixlahuacan [= Ixtlahuacan], Colima, Mexico, ... at an elevation of approximately 300 m."  
Reproductionovovivparous 
TypesHolotype: UTA R4443. 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (2832 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentVenomous!

Habitat: terrestrial

Conservation: one of the 30 most endangered viper species (Maritz et al. 2016). 
Etymology“The specific name is from the Greek hesperos meaning the West and is used here in reference to the distribution” (CAMPBELL 1976). 
References
  • Alvarado-Diaz, Javier;Huacuz-Elias, Dolores del C.;Suazo-Ortu±o, Ireri 1997. Geographic Distribution. Porthidium hespere. Herpetological Review 28 (2): 98 - get paper here
  • Bryson Jr., Robert W.; Adrián Nieto-Montes de Oca, Jacobo Reyes Velasco 2008. Phylogenetic Position of Porthidium Hespere (Viperidae: Crotalinae) and Phylogeography of Arid-Adapted Hognosed Pitvipers Based on Mitochondrial DNA. Copeia 2008 (1): 172-178 - get paper here
  • Campbell, J. A. 1976. A new terrestrial pit viper of the genus Bothrops (Reptilia, Serpentes, Crotalidae) from western México. Journal of Herpetology 10: 151-160. - get paper here
  • Campbell, J.A. & Lamar, W.W. 1989. The Venomous Reptiles of Latin America. Comstock Publishing/Cornell University Press, Ithaca
  • Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp
  • Lemos-Espinal JA, Smith GR, Pierce LJS, Painter CW 2020. The amphibians and reptiles of Colima, Mexico, with a summary of their conservation status. ZooKeys 927: 99-125 - get paper here
  • Maritz, Bryan; Johannes Penner, Marcio Martins, Jelka Crnobrnja-Isailović, Stephen Spear, Laura R.V. Alencar, Jesús Sigala-Rodriguez, Kevin Messenger, Rulon W. Clark, Pritpal Soorae, Luca Luiselli, Chris Jenkins, Harry W. Greene 2016. Identifying global priorities for the conservation of vipers. Biological Conservation, doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2016.05.004 - 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
  • Palacios-Aguilar, Ricardo & OSCAR FLORES-VILLELA 2018. An updated checklist of the herpetofauna from Guerrero, Mexico. Zootaxa 4422 (1): 1-24 - get paper here
  • Palacios-Aguilar, Ricardo, Rufino Santos-Bibiano and Elizabeth Beltrán-Sánchez. 2016. Notable distributional records of amphibians and reptiles from Guerrero, Mexico. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3 (2): 527-531 - 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.
 
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