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Cerrophidion sasai JADIN, TOWNSEND, CASTOE & CAMPBELL, 2012

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Higher TaxaViperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Costa Rica Montane Pitviper 
SynonymCerrophidion sasai JADIN, TOWNSEND, CASTOE & CAMPBELL 2012
Cerrophidion sasai — WALLACH et al. 2014: 156 
DistributionCosta Rica, W Panama

Type locality: San Ramos de Tres Ríos, Departamento de San Jose, Costa Rica.  
Reproductionviviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesHolotype: UTA R-51399, Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center, University of Texas at Arlington; an adult male, collected on 8 November 2001 by M. Sasa. 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1022 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentSynonymy: this species has been previously considered as C. godmani.

Distribution: see map in JADIN et al. 2012 
EtymologyThe specific epithet is a patronym recognizing Mahmood Sasa Marín, an accomplished Costa Rican herpetologist. Among his many accolades, he is a recent recipient of Award for Young Scientists in 2009 given by the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) and the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cieníficas y Tecnologicas, Costa Rica (CONICIT). He has also published numerous works on what was then C. godmani in Costa Rica such as variation in allozymes across Costa Rican populations (Sasa 1997), comparative phylogenetic and biogeographic studies of pitvipers in the region (Castoe et al. 2005, 2009) and characterizations of the venom (Durban et al. 2011; Lomonte et al. 2012) [from JADIN et al. 2012]. 
References
  • Jadin, R.C., Townsend, J.H., Castoe, T.A. & Campbell, J.A. 2012. Cryptic diversity in disjunct populations of Middle American Montane Pitvipers: a systematic reassessment of Cerrophidion godmani. Zoologica Scripta doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00547.x - 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.
  • Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
 
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