Bothrocophias myrringae ANGARITA-SIERRA, CUBIDES-CUBILLOS & HURTADO-GÓMEZ, 2022
Can you confirm these amateur observations of Bothrocophias myrringae?
Bothrocophias myrringae
Find more photos by Google images search: 
| Higher Taxa | Viperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | |
| Synonym | Bothrocophias myrringae ANGARITA-SIERRA, CUBIDES-CUBILLOS & HURTADO-GÓMEZ 2022 Bothrocophias microphthalmus — CAMPBELL & LAMAR 1989: 255 Bothrocophias microphthalmus — CAMPBELL & LAMAR 2004: Plate 474 |
| Distribution | Colombia (Cundinamarca) Type locality: vereda Mundo Nuevo, municipality of La Calera, department of Cundinamarca, Colombia, coordinates: N 4.660602778, W –73.88491667; elevation 2,761 m. a.s.l. |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype. INSZ 0268, an adult male, collected by local people and brought to Francisco Javier Ruiz, staff of the INS, on 29th August 2020. (Figs 1, 6G–I, 7, 8A–C in Angarita-Sierra et al. 2022) Paratypes. COLOMBIA [n=5; Fig. 8C–D]: Cundinamarca: Municipality of Guayabetal. Locality: unknown, IAvH-R 6877, coordinates N 4.17508, W –73.88117 (approximate to the town). Municipality of Choachí. Locality: Palo Alto, IAvH-R6840, coordinates N 4.61578, W –73.8904. Municipality of Fómeque. Locality: vereda de Coasavistá, INSV-SR-00365, coordinates N 4.495001, W –73.852056. — Meta: Municipality of El Calvario. Locality: unknown, INSVSR-0099, coordinates N 4.358925, W –73.71358889. Municipality of San Juanito. Locality: unknown, IAvH-R7045, coordinates N 4.457913889, W –73.67618889 (approximate to the town). |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Bothrocophias myrringae sp. nov. can be distinguished from all its congeners by the following combination of characters: (1) 157–161 ventral scales in females, 152–155 ventral scales in males; (2) internasal scales in contact or separated by a single small scale (3) absence of canthorostral scales; (4) lacunolabial scale usually present; (5) hemipenial lobes slim and cylindrical, moderately capitate distally, weakly ornamented toward the apex with large and scarce calyces with weakly spinulate edges; (8) bifurcation point of the hemipenial lobes about 2–4 sudcaudal scales; (9) hemipenial body ornamented by numerous mesial spines that increase in size from the center to periphery of the hemipenial body and arranged in oblique lines; (10) in sulcate view, lateral and mesial spines of the hemipenial body variable in size; (11) sulcus spermaticus walls weakly defined; (12) usually more than 28 dark-brown bands and/or opposite or juxtaposed trapezoid-shaped blotches with paler centers dorsally; and (13) ventral surfaces of the tail with bright reddish or orange-reddish speckles with black spots without a regular pattern and heavily marked with dark pigment towards the base (Fig. 7). (Angarita-Sierra et al. 2022) |
| Comment | |
| Etymology | Named after the Latin translation of the Spanish nickname “Mirringa,” which means “pinch” or something very small. The word “Mirringa” was popularized by Rafael Pombo (1833–1912), a Colombian poet and writer who wrote a popular fable titled “Mirringa Mirronga. The name of the new species is in honor of the educator Myriam Sierra Guerrero (mother of the first author). |
| References |
|
| External links |