Cerrophidion sasai JADIN, TOWNSEND, CASTOE & CAMPBELL, 2012
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Cerrophidion sasai
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| Higher Taxa | Viperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Costa Rica Montane Pitviper |
| Synonym | Cerrophidion sasai JADIN, TOWNSEND, CASTOE & CAMPBELL 2012 Cerrophidion sasai — WALLACH et al. 2014: 156 |
| Distribution | Costa Rica, W Panama Type locality: San Ramos de Tres Ríos, Departamento de San Jose, Costa Rica. |
| Reproduction | viviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
| Types | Holotype: 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. |
| Diagnosis | |
| Comment | Synonymy: this species has been previously considered as C. godmani. Distribution: see map in JADIN et al. 2012 |
| Etymology | The 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]. |
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