Porthidium yucatanicum (SMITH, 1941)

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Higher Taxa	Viperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Yucatán Hognose Viper S: Chac-can
Synonym	Trimeresurus yucatanicus SMITH 1941 Bothrops yucatanicus SMITH 1941 Bothrops yucatanica — VILLA et al. 1988 Porthidium yucatanicum — LINER 1994 Porthidium yucatannicus — WELCH 1994: 101 Porthidium yucatanicum — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 324 Porthidium yucatanicum — LEE 2000: 372 Porthidium yucatanicum — WALLACH et al. 2014: 578
Distribution	Mexico (northern half of the Yucatan peninsula, Campeche, Quintana Roo), Belize Type locality: "Chichen Itza, Yucatan" [Mexico].
Reproduction	viviparous
Types	Holotype: USNM
Diagnosis
Comment	Venomous! Habitat: terrestrial
References	Aguilar-López JL, Luría-Manzano R, Pineda E, Canseco-Márquez L 2021. Selva Zoque, Mexico: an important Mesoamerican tropical region for reptile species diversity and conservation. ZooKeys 1054: 127-153 - get paper here Calderon, R.; Cedeño-Vázquez, J.R. & Pozo, C. 2003. New distributional records for amphibians and reptiles from Campeche, Mexico. Herpetological Review 34 (3): 269-272 - get paper here Campbell, J.A. & Lamar, W.W. 1989. The Venomous Reptiles of Latin America. Comstock Publishing/Cornell University Press, Ithaca González-Sánchez, V. H., J. D. Johnson, E. García-Padilla, V. Mata-Silva, D. L. DeSantis and L. D. Wilson. 2017. The Herpetofauna of the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula: composition, distribution, and conservation status. Mesoamerican Herpetology 4(2): 264–380 - get paper here Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp Lee, J. C. 2000. A field guide to the amphibians and reptiles of the Maya world. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, Lee, J.C. 1996. The amphibians and reptiles of the Yucatán Peninsula. Comstock, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 500 pp. MCCRANIE, J.R. 2001. Benque Viejo and Porthidium yucatanicum (Squamata: Viperidae) in Belize. Carib. J. Sci. 37 (3-4): 284-285 McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp. Smith, H.M. 1941. On the Mexican snakes of the genus Trimeresurus. Zoologica 26: 61-64. - get paper here Smith, Hobart M. 1944. Additions to the list of Mexican amphibians and reptiles in the Carnegie Museum. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 30: 87-92 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.
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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