Bothrops barnetti

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Bothrops barnetti
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Viperidae
Genus: Bothrops
Species:
B. barnetti
Binomial name
Bothrops barnetti
Parker, 1938
Synonyms[1]

Bothrops barnetti, also known

Crotalinae of the family Viperidae. The species is endemic to Peru. There are no subspecies that are recognized as being valid.[2]

Etymology

The specific name, barnetti, is in honor of Burgess Barnett (1888–1944), who collected the holotype and paratypes. Dr. Barnett was Curator of Reptiles at the London Zoo (1932–1937) and Superintendent of the Rangoon Zoological Gardens (1938–1944).[3]

Description

B. barnetti is patterned in white and black triangles. Males usually grow to 120 cm (47 inches) in total length (including tail), whereas females are quite smaller and thinner. The body is heavily shaped and stocky.

Common names

English common names for B. barnetti are Barnett's lancehead[4] and Barnett's pit viper.[5] In Peru it is referred to as cascabel, cascabel falso, macanche, sancarranca, and zancarranca.[4]

Geographic range

B. barnetti is found along the Pacific coast of northern Peru. It occurs at low elevations in arid, tropical scrub.

The

type locality given is "from the mouths of Quebradas Honda and Perines, between Lobitos and Talara, northern Peru".[1]

Reproduction

B. barnetti is viviparous.[6]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 1-893777-01-4
    (volume).
  2. ^ "Bothrops barnetti ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 5 November 2006.
  3. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5
    . (Bothrops barnetti, p. 17).
  4. ^
    ISBN 0-8014-4141-2
    .
  5. ISBN 0-398-02808-7
    .
  6. ^ Bothrops barnetti at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 6 December 2007.

Further reading

  • ISBN 0-87666-912-7
    . (Bothrops barnetti, p. 119).
  • Parker HW (1938). "The Vertical Distribution of some Reptiles and Amphibians in Southern Ecuador ". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eleventh Series 2: 438–450. (Bothrops barnetti, new species, p. 447).
  • Schmidt KP, Walker WF (1943). "Snakes of the Peruvian Coastal Region". Zoological Series of the Field Museum of Natural History 24 (27): 297–324. (Trimeresurus barnetti, new combination, p. 322).
  • Silva, Walter (2012). "Haltung und Zucht der Sancarranca (Bothrops barnetti)". Ophidia 6 (1): 8–25.



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