| Higher Taxa | Viperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Cerro Petlalcala Montane Pitviper
S: Petates de Cerro Petlalcala |
| Synonym | Cerrophidion petlalcalensis LOPÉZ-LUNA, VOGT & TORRE-LORANCA 1999
Cerrophidion petlalcalense (emendation)
Cerrophidion petlalcalensis — JADIN et al. 2011
Cerrophidion petlalcalensis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 156 |
| Distribution | Mexico (Veracruz, Oaxaca)
Type locality: Cerro de Petlalcala, Municipio San Andres Tenejapan, Veracruz, Mexico (2100 m elevation), 18°47’N, 97°06’W.
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| Reproduction | ovovivparous |
| Types | Holotype: CAR-EBTT (= IBH-LT = UNAM-LT) H 3454 |
| Diagnosis | |
| Comment | Venomous!
Nomenclature: The correct name should be Cerrophidion petlalcalense because of the gender of Cerrophidion.
Habitat: terrestrial
Distribution: see map in JADIN et al. 2012 |
| Etymology | Named after the type locality. |
| References |
- Contreras-Calvario, Angel Ivan; Rene Avalos Vela, Jorge Luis Castillo Juárez 2019. APORTACIONES AL CONOCIMIENTO DE LA DIETA DE Cerrophidion petlalcalensis (Marco Antonio López Luna, Richard C. Vogt, Miguel Ángel De la Torre Loranca, 1999) (Viperidae). Rev. Latinoamer. Herp. 2 (2): 60-63 - get paper here
- Dunn,E.R. 1919. Two new crotaline snakes from western Mexico. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 32: 213-216 - get paper here
- Garcia Vazquez, Uri Omar 2019. NEW DISTRIBUTIONAL RECORDS FOR THE RARE MEXICAN PITVIPER Cerrophidion petlalcalensis (SQUAMATA: VIPERIDAE) FROM VERACRUZ AND OAXACA, MÉXICO, WITH COMMENTS ON THE NATURAL HISTORY. Rev. Latinoamer. Herp. 2 (2): 71-77 - get paper here
- Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp
- 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
- JADIN, ROBERT C.; ERIC N. SMITH and JONATHAN A. CAMPBELL 2011. Unravelling a tangle of Mexican serpents: a systematic revision of highland pitvipers. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163: 943–958 - get paper here
- López-Luna, Marco Antonio, Richard C. Vogt and Miguel Angel de la Torre-Loranca. 1999. A new species of montane pitviper from Veracruz, México. Herpetologica 55 (3): 382-389 - 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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