Porthidium volcanicum SOLORZANO, 1995
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Higher Taxa | Viperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
Subspecies | |
Common Names | G: Costa-Rica-Stülpnasenotter |
Synonym | Porthidium volcanicum SOLORZANO 1995 Porthidium volcanicum — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 323 Porthidium volcanicum — SAVAGE 2002 Porthidium volcanicum — WALLACH et al. 2014: 577 |
Distribution | Costa Rica, Panama
Type locality: "Ujarnis de Buenos Aires (Valle del General, suoeste de la provincia de Puntarenas, Costa Rica)."
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Reproduction | viviparous |
Types | Holotype: UCR 11642. |
Diagnosis | |
Comment | Venomous!
Synonymy: previous records of P. lansbergii from W Panama to be based on individuals of Porthidium volcanicum.
Habitat: terrestrial |
References |
- Dwyer, Q. & Van Den Burgh, J. 2012. Geographic distribution: Porthidium volcanicum (Costa Rican hog-nosed pitviper). Herpetological Review 43: 308 - 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.
- Porras, L.W. & Solórzano, A. 2006. Costa Rica’s venomous snakes. Reptilia (GB) (48): 11-17 - get paper here
- Porras, L.W. & Solórzano, A. 2006. Die Schlangen Costa Ricas. Reptilia (Münster) 11 (61): 20-27 - get paper here
- Savage, J.M. 2002. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Herpetofauna Between Two Continents, Between Two Seas. University of Chicago Press, 934 pp. [review in Copeia 2003 (1): 205]
- Solorzano, A. 1994. Una nueva especie de serpiente venenosa terrestre del genero Porthidium (Serpentes: Viperidae), del Suroeste de Costa Rica. Revista de Biologia Tropical 42: 695-701 - get paper here
- Solorzano, A. 2004. Serpientes de Costa Rica - Snakes of Costa Rica. Editorial INBio, Costa Rica, 792 pp.
- 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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