I have a question regarding confusion between scientific names and common names. Bothrops atrox and Bothrops asper and the common names Terciopelo and Fer-de-Lance have been mixed up. Does terciopelo refer to asper or atrox or both? While in La Selva, terciopelo and fer-de-lance were used to refer to asper, but i have also seen it as a reference to atrox here in the states. could someone please set me straight?
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Bothrops question
venom_2
Apr 27, 2005 06:17 PM
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phobos
Apr 28, 2005 01:15 PM
Check out this reference on Wolfgang Wusters website. It has an incredable number of great papers on venomous snake systematics. He's da man!
Cheers!
Al
WÜSTER, W., M.G. SALOMÃO, R.S. THORPE, G. PUORTO, M. F. D. FURTADO, S. A. HOGE, R. D. G. THEAKSTON & D. A. WARRELL (1997) Systematics of the Bothrops atrox species complex: insights from multivariate analysis and mitochondrial DNA sequence information. In R.S. Thorpe, W. Wüster & A. Malhotra (Eds.), Venomous Snakes: Ecology, Evolution and Snakebite. Symposia of the Zoological Society of London, No. 70, Pp. 99-113. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
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PhilodryasFAN
Apr 28, 2005 07:48 PM
I think "terciopelo" is it used for Bothrops asper, and "fer de lance" for Bothrops atrox, or at least I use them in that way.
I´m pretty sure "terciopelo" isn´t used to name B. atrox.
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PhilodryasFAN
