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Bothriechis rowleyi (BOGERT, 1968)

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Higher TaxaViperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Rowley's Palm Pit Viper
S: Nauyaca de Arbol 
SynonymBothrops rowleyi BOGERT 1968
Bothriechis rowleyi — CAMPBELL & LAMAR 1989: 167
Bothrops nigroviridis macdougalli — SMITH & MOLL 1969
Bothriechis rowleyi — LINER 1994
Bothriechis rowleyi — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 246
Bothriechis rowleyi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 108 
DistributionMexico (SE Oaxaca, NW Chiapas)

macdougalli: NE Oaxaca; Type locality: Mexico: Sierra Madre, 5-10 km E La Gloria, District of Juchitan, Oaxaca; T. McDougall; June 11, 1950.  
Reproductionovoviviparous 
TypesHolotype: AMNH 100669
Holotype: INHS (= UIMNH) 27845 [macdougalli] 
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CommentVenomous!

Not listed in PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970 or 1986.

Habitat: forests, fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018) 
EtymologyNamed after John Stuart Rowley (1907-1968), an ornithologist who was a Research Associate, Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy, California Academy of Sciences. 
References
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  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Bogert,C.M. 1968. A new arboreal pit viper of the genus Bothrops from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, México. American Museum Novitates 2341: 1-14 - get paper here
  • Campbell, J.A. & Lamar, W.W. 1989. The Venomous Reptiles of Latin America. Comstock Publishing/Cornell University Press, Ithaca
  • Casas-Andreu, G., F.R. Méndez-De la Cruz and X. Aguilar-Miguel. 2004. Anfibios y Reptiles; pp. 375–390, in A.J.M. García-Mendoza, J. Ordoñez and M. Briones-Salas (ed.). Biodiversidad de Oaxaca. Instituto de Biología, UNAM-Fondo Oaxaqueño para la Conservación de la Naturaleza-World Wildlife Fund, México, D. F.
  • García-Padilla, E., Mata-Silva, V., Villalobos-Juárez, I., López-Esquivel, E. A., Lavariega, M. C., Rocha, A., DeSantis, D. L., Melgar-Martínez, A. I., Johnson, J. D., Fucsko, L. A., Lazcano, D., & Wilson, L. D. 2022. Anfibios y reptiles de la región de los Chimalapas, Istmo de Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, México:: composición, categorización distribucional, estado de conservación y significado para la biodiversidad. Biología Y Sociedad, 5(10), 37–76 - get paper here
  • Grünwald, Christoph Imre, Nadia Pérez-Rivera, Iván Trinidad Ahumada-Carrillo, Héctor Franz-Chávez and Brandon Thomas La Forest. 2016. New distributional records for the herpetofauna of Mexico. Herpetological Review 47 (1): 85-90 - get paper here
  • Gutberlet Jr., Ronald L. 1995. A New Locality for Rowley's Palm Pitviper, Bothriechis rowleyi (Serpentes: Viperidae), a Mexican Relict. Southwestern Naturalist 40 (1): 124 - get paper here
  • Gutberlet, Ronald L., Jr 1995. A new locality for Rowley's palm pitviper, Bothriechis rowleyi (Serpentes: Viperidae), a Mexican relict. Southwestern Naturalist 40 (1): 124-125 - get paper here
  • Harrington, Sean M; Jordyn M de Haan, Lindsey Shapiro, Sara Ruane 2018. Habits and characteristics of arboreal snakes worldwide: arboreality constrains body size but does not affect lineage diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125 (1): 61–71 - get paper here
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  • HERNÁNDEZ-DÍAZ, FERNANDO & OCTAVIO I. MARTÍNEZ-VACA LEÓN. 2021. New record of the Blue-tailed Palm Pitviper, Bothriechis rowleyi (Bogert, 1968), in the high mountains of northern Chiapas, Mexico. Herpetology Notes 14: 1287–1289. - get paper here
  • Johnson, Jerry D.; Vicente Mata-Silva, Elí García Padilla, and Larry David Wilson 2015. The Herpetofauna of Chiapas, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (3): 272–329. - get paper here
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  • McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp.
  • Muñoz-Alonso, Luis Antonio; Jorge Nieblas-Camacho,<br />Marina Alba Chau-Cortez, Alondra Berenice González-Navarro, Jaime López-Pérez & Juan Pérez-López 2017. Diversidad de anfibios y reptiles en la Reservade la Biosfera Selva El Ocote: su vulnerabilidad ante la fragmentación y el cambio climático. In: Lorena Ruiz-Montoya et al. (eds), Vulnerabilidad social y biológica ante el cambio climático en la Reserva de la Biosfera Selva El Ocote. El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, pp.395-448 - get paper here
  • Smith, Hobart M.; Moll, Edward O. 1969. A taxonomic rearrangement of the pit vipers of the Bothrops nigroviridis complex of southern Mexico. Journal of Herpetology 3 (3-4): 151-155 - get paper here
  • Taggart, Travis W., Brian I. Crother, and Mary E. White 2001. Palm-pitviper (Bothriechis) phylogeny, mtDNA, and consilience. Cladistics 17: 355-370 - 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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