Bothriechis
Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Viperoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Viperidae
Subfamilia: Crotalinae
Genus: Bothriechis
Species (19):
B. aurifer –
B. bicolor –
B. guifarroi –
B. hussaini –
B. khwargi –
B. klebbai –
B. lateralis –
B. marchi –
B. nigroadspersus –
B. nigroviridis –
B. nitidus –
B. nubestris –
B. rahimi –
B. rasikusumorum –
B. rowleyi –
B. schlegelii –
B. supraciliaris –
B. thalassinus –
B. torvus
Name
[edit]- Type species: Bothriechis nigroviridis Peters, 1859, by monotypy.
Synonyms
[edit]- Teleuraspis Cope, 1860: 334
- Type species: Trigonocephalus schlegelii Berthold, 1846, by subsequent designation by Dunn & Dunn (1940: 75).
- Thamnocenchris Salvin, 1860: 459
- Type species: Thamnocenchris aurifer Salvin, 1860, by monotypy.
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Peters, W. 1859. Über die von Hrn. Dr. Hoffmann in Costa Rica gesammelten und an das Königl. Zoologische Museum gesandten Schlangen. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussische Akademie des Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1859: 275–278. BHL
- Cope, E.D. [1859] 1860. Catalogue of the venomous serpents in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, with notes on the families, genera and species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 11: 332–347. BHL Reference page.
- Salvin, O. 1860. On the Reptiles of Guatemala. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 28: 451–461. BHL Reference page.
Additional references
[edit]- Werman, S.D., Crother, B.I. & White, M.E. 1999. Phylogeny of some Middle American pitvipers based on a cladistic analysis of mitochondrial 12S and 16S DNA sequence information. Contemporary Herpetology 1999(3): 1–13. DOI: 10.17161/ch.vi1.11949 Reference page.
- Taggart, T.W., Crother, B.I. & White, M.E. 2001. Palm-pitviper (Bothriechis) phylogeny, mtDNA, and consilience. Cladistics 17(4): 355–370. DOI: 10.1006/clad.2001.0183 Reference page.
- Castoe, T.A., Daza, J.M., Smith, E.N., Sasa, M.M., Kuch, U., Campbell, J.A., Chippindale, P.T. & Parkinson, C.L. 2009. Comparative phylogeography of pitvipers suggests a consensus of ancient Middle American highland biogeography. Journal of Biogeography 36(1): 88–103. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2008.01991.x Reference page.
- Townsend, J.H., Medina-Flores, M., Wilson, L.D., Jadin, R.C. & Austin, J.D. 2013. A relict lineage and new species of green palm-pitviper (Squamata, Viperidae, Bothriechis) from the Chortís Highlands of Mesoamerica. ZooKeys 298: 77–106. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.298.4834 Reference page.
- Doan, T.M., Mason, A.J., Castoe, T.A., Sasa, M. & Parkinson, C.L. 2016. A cryptic palm-pitviper species (Squamata: Viperidae: Bothriechis) from the Costa Rican highlands, with notes on the variation within B. nigroviridis. Zootaxa 4138(2): 271–290. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4138.2.3. Reference page.
- Mason, A.J., Grazziotin, F.G., Zaher, H., Lemmon, A.R., Lemmon, E.M. & Parkinson, C.L. 2019. Reticulate evolution in nuclear Middle America causes discordance in the phylogeny of palm-pitvipers (Viperidae: Bothriechis). Journal of Biogeography 46(5): 833–844. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13542 Reference page.
- Arteaga, A., Pyron, R.A., Batista, A., Vieira, J., Meneses-Pelayo, E., Smith, E.N., Barrio Amorós, C.L., Koch, C., Agne, S., Valencia, J.H., Bustamante, L. & Harris, K.J. 2024. Systematic revision of the Eyelash Palm-Pitviper Bothriechis schlegelii (Serpentes, Viperidae), with the description of five new species and revalidation of three. Evolutionary Systematics 8(1): 15–64. DOI: 10.3897/evolsyst.8.114527 Reference page.
Links
[edit]- Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Bothriechis . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 13 February 2024.
Vernacular names
[edit]English: Palm Pitvipers