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Bothrops medusa (STERNFELD, 1920)

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Higher TaxaViperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Venezuela Forest Pit Viper 
SynonymLachesis medusa STERNFELD 1920
Bothriopsis medusa — WELCH 1994: 31
? Bothrops eneydae SANDNER MONTILLA
Bothrops medusa — SALOMÃO et al. 1997
Bothriopsis medusa — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 248
Bothrops medusa — WÜSTER et al. 2002
Bothriopsis medusa — FENWICK et al. 2009
Bothrops medusa — CARRASCO et al. 2012
Bothriopsis medusa — WALLACH et al. 2014: 110 
DistributionVenezuela (Aragua, Carabobo)

Type locality: Caracas, Venezuela.  
Reproductionviviparous 
TypesHolotype: SMF 21202, according to Mertens, 1967 
Diagnosis 
CommentVenomous! 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Carrasco, P.A., C.I. Mattoni, G.C. Leynaud, and G.J. Scrocchi. 2012. Morphology, phylogeny and taxonomy of South American bothropoid pitvipers (Serpentes, Viperidae). Zoologica Scripta 41: 109-124 - 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Roze, J. A. 1952. Colección de reptiles del Profesor Scorza, de Venezuela. Acta Biologica Venezuelica 1 (5): 93-114
  • 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.
  • Sternfeld, R. 1920. Eine neue Schlange der Gattung Lachesis aus Südamerika. Senckenbergiana, 2: 181-185 - 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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