respected friends,I NEED AN URGENT HELP TO FIND OUT THE TAXONOMY OF FOLLOWING SNAKES BOTHROPS ALTERNATUS,BOTHROPS ATROX,BOTHROPS LANCEOLATUS,ARE THEY THREE DIFFRENT SNAKES OR ONE SNAKE WITH DIFFERENT NAMES?HOW DO I CLASSIFY BOTHROPS OR PIT VIPERS IN GENERAL
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taxonomy of bothrops
farokhmaster
Oct 10, 2003 02:04 AM
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meretseger
Oct 10, 2003 04:16 AM
I think you want to try the venomous forum for this one... I'm personally not sure exactly what you're asking.
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willstill
Oct 10, 2003 10:44 PM
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oldherper
Oct 11, 2003 08:29 AM
Bothrops is a large genus of Central and South American Lance-Headed Vipers. They are crotalid snakes and range from the small Palm Vipers (formerly Bothrops now Bothriechis) and Eyelash Vipers Bothrops schlegelli to the very large Terciopelo Bothrops asper.
The three that you are asking about:
B. alternatus is the Urutu
B. atrox is the common Lancehead , sometimes called Barba Amarilla , or Fer-de-lance.
B. lanceolatus this one was originally the Fer-de-lance, now diminished in numbers in the wild.
So..they are three different species.
This is, however, a better discussion for the venomous forums..
