Bothrocophias microphthalmus
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Viperidae |
Genus: | Bothrocophias |
Species: | B. microphthalmus
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Binomial name | |
Bothrocophias microphthalmus Cope, 1875
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Bothrocophias microphthalmus, or the small-eyed toad-headed pit viper, is a species of venomous snake in the family Viperidae.[2] The species is endemic to northwestern South America.[3]
Geographic range
B. microphthalmus is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.
The type locality is "between Balsa Puerto and Moyobamba, Peru".[1]
Description and Characteristics
The small eyed toad headed pit viper
References
- ^ a b "Bothrocophias microphthalmus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ISBN 1-893777-01-4(volume).
- ^ "Bothrocophias ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 3 November 2006.
Further reading
- Cope ED. 1875. "Report on the Reptiles brought by Professor James Orton from the middle and upper Amazon, and Western Peru". J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia (2) 8: 159–183. (Bothrops microphthalmus, new species, pp. 182–183).