Porthidium lansbergii
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- Common names: Lansberg's hognosed pitviper.[2]
Porthidium lansbergii is a venomous pitviper species found in Central and South America. Currently, four subspecies are recognized, including the nominate subspecies described here.[3]
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Etymology
The specific name, lansbergii, is in honor of "M[onsieur]. de Lansberge" (Reinhart Frans von Lansberge), Dutch consul at Caracas, Venezuela, in 1841.[4]
Description
Adults average Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). in total length with a maximum of Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value).. Terrestrial and moderately slender.[2]
Common names
Lansberg's hognosed pitviper. Also called patoco in Colombia and Panama.[2]
Geographic range
Found in extreme eastern Central America in the xeric coastal lowlands of central and eastern Panama. In northern South America in the Atlantic lowlands of Colombia and northern Venezuela, as well as the Pacific lowlands of Ecuador. The type locality given is "les environs de Turbaco [Department de Bolívar], en Colombie" According to Amaral (1929), likely from Tumaco.[1]
According to the range map provided by Campbell & Lamar (2004), the subspecies P. l. rozei and P. l. lansbergii intergrade in the northern part of the Guajira Peninsula.[2]
Subspecies
| Subspecies[3] | Taxon author[3] | Common name | Geographic range[1][2] |
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| P. l. arcosae | (Schätti & Kramer, 1993) | Manabí hognosed pitviper[2] | Western Ecuador in the Pacific lowlands of Manabí Province. |
| P. l. hutmanni | (Sandner Montilla, 1989) | Endemic to Isla Margarita, Venezuela. | |
| P. l. lansbergii | (Schlegel, 1841) | Northern Colombia and Panama. | |
| P. l. rozei | J.A. Peters, 1968 | Lansberg's gold hognosed pitviper | Venezuela from the Lake Maracaibo region and along the coast as far east as Caripito Monagas. Also enters northeastern Colombia to the southwest of Lake Maracaibo. |
Taxonomy
Capmbell & Lamar (2004) consider P. l. arcosae a full species.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Campbell JA, Lamar WW. 2004. The Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere. 2 volumes. Ithaca and London: Comstock Publishing Associates. 870 pp. 1500 plates. ISBN 0-8014-4141-2.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Porthidium lansbergii, p. 151).
Further reading
- Schlegel H. 1841. "Description d'une nouvelle espèce du genre Trigonocéphale (T. Lansbergii) ".
Magasin de Zoologie 3: 1-3. (Trigonocephalus lansbergii, new species). (in French).
External links
- Porthidium lansbergii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 20 September 2007.
