You are here » home › search results › Bothrops venezuelensis

Bothrops venezuelensis SANDNER-MONTILLA, 1952

IUCN Red List - Bothrops venezuelensis - Least Concern, LC
iNaturalist logo

Can you confirm these amateur observations of Bothrops venezuelensis?

Add your own observation of
Bothrops venezuelensis »

Find more photos by Google images search: Google images

Higher TaxaViperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Venezuela Lancehead
S: Tigra-mariposa; Barriga-morado; Terciopelo; Rabo-candela; Rabo frito; Barriga azul 
SynonymBothrops venezuelensis SANDNER-MONTILLA 1952
Bothrops pifanoi SANDNER Y ROMER 1961
Bothrops venezuelae SANDNER-MONTILLA 1961: 4
Bothrops venezuelensis — WELCH 1994: 35
Bothrops venezuelensis — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 271
Bothrops venezuelensis — KORNACKER & NATERA-MUMAW 2008
Bothrops venezuelensis — FENWICK et al. 2009
Bothrops venezuelensis — CARRASCO et al. 2012
Bothrops venezuelensis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 119 
DistributionN Venezuela (Lara [Esqueda & La Marca 1999]), Colombia (Norte de Santander, Boyacá)

Type locality: “Boca de Tigre”, Serranía de El Avila, Distrito Federal, Venezuela.  
Reproductionovoviviparous 
TypesType: unknown, None specified in original description. 
DiagnosisUnfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 3440 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentVenomous! 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality. 
References
  • Bernal, R. 2025. Serpientes de Colombia-Guía de Campo. Serie de Guías Tropicales de Campo. 19: 396 pp. Conservación Internacional Colombia, Bogotá - get paper here
  • Campbell, J.A. & Lamar, W.W. 1989. The Venomous Reptiles of Latin America. Comstock Publishing/Cornell University Press, Ithaca
  • Cundall, D. 2009. Viper Fangs: Functional Limitations of Extreme Teeth. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology: Ecological and Evolutionary Approaches, 82(1), 63–79 - get paper here
  • FENWICK, ALLYSON M.; RONALD L. GUTBERLET JR, JENNAFER A. EVANS, CHRISTOPHER L. PARKINSON 2009. Morphological and molecular evidence for phylogeny and classification of South American pitvipers, genera Bothrops, Bothriopsis, and Bothrocophias (Serpentes: Viperidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 156 (3): 617-640 - get paper here
  • Kornacker, P. & Natera-Mumaw, M. 2008. Feldherpetologische Daten zu einigen Amphibien- und Reptilienarten im Wolkenwald des “Parque Nacional Henri Pittier”, Rancho Grande, Venezuela. Sauria 30 (3): 21-37 - get paper here
  • Markezich, A.L. 2002. New distribution records of reptiles from Western Venezuela. Herpetological Review 33 (1): 69-74 - 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.
  • Mendoza, J.S.; V. Berrio; D.A. Gómez. 2012. Reptilia, Squamata, Viperidae, Bothrops venezuelensis Leybold, 1873: Distribution extension and first country record. Check List 8(2):310-312 - get paper here
  • Muñoz-Saba, Yaneth; Nathaly Calvo-Roa, Paul Andrés Gómez-Sandoval, Diego Casallas-Pabón John Douglas Lynch, Lucas S. Barrientos, Diego A. Gómez-Sánchez. 2019. Guía de campo de los mamíferos, anfibios y reptiles de Santa María (Boyacá, Colombia). Serie Guías de Campo del Instituto de Ciencias Naturales. N° 23. Bogotá D.C. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Bogotá. 317 p - get paper here
  • 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
  • Peters, James A. 1968. A replacement name for Bothrops lansbergii venezuelensis Roze, 1959 (Viperidae, Serpentes). Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 81: 319-322 - get paper here
  • Pontes-Nogueira, M., Martins, M., Alencar, L. R., & Sawaya, R. J. 2021. The role of vicariance and dispersal on the temporal range dynamics of forest vipers in the Neotropical region. PLOS ONE, 16(9), e0257519 - 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
  • Sandner-Montilla, F. 1961. Ofidios ponzoñosos de Venezuela - Bothrops venezuelae sp. nov. Novedades cientificas contribuciones ocasionales del Museu de Historia Natural La Salle, Ser. Zool. (30): 1-36
  • Sandner-Montilla,F. 1952. Serpientes Bothrops de Venezuela. Monogr. Cient. Inst. Terap. Exper. Lab. "Veros" Bogotá no. 9: 1-4 - get paper here
  • 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.
  • Sethao, Richard 2008. Haltung, Pflege und Nachzucht neotropischer Lanzenottern der Gattung Bothrops am Beispiel von Bothrops asper und Bothrops venezuelensis. Draco 8 (33): 35-38 - 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  
Is it interesting? Share with others:

As link to this species use URL address:

https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Bothrops&species=venezuelensis

without field 'search_param'. Field 'search_param' is used for browsing search result.



Please submit feedback about this entry to the curator