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BOTHROPS 



BOTHROPS Wagler 



1824 Bothrops Wagler, in Spix, Sp. Nov. Serp. Bras.: 'jO. Type-species: Coluber lanceolatus Lacepede. 



1855 Botlir lech is Peters, Monats. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1855= 2/8. Type-species: Bothriechis niqroviridis 



Peters. 



1860 Teleuraspis Cope. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc i . Phila., 1855' 338. Type-species: Tr i qonocephalus 



schleqel i i Berthold. 



1860 Thamnocenchr is Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1860: 455. Type-species: Thamnocenchr i s aurifer 



Salv i n. 



1861 Bothr ioDS is Peters, Monats. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, I86I: 359' Type-species: Bothr iops is 



quadr i scutatus Peters. 

 I87I Porth id i um Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc i . Phila., I87I: 2O7. Type-species: Tr i qonocephalus 



lansberg i i Schlegel. 

 1881 Rh i noceroph i s Garman, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 8: 85. Type-species: Rh i noceroph is nasus Carman. 

 I887 Ophryacus Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., J2: 88. Type-species: At ropos undulatus Jan. 

 I885 Thanatoph i s Posada-Arango, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 14: 3^3' Type-species: Thana toph i s torvus 



Posada-Arango. 



Distribution: Mexico; Central America; almost all of South America except southernmost parts, 

 Lesser Antilles as far north as Martinique. 



Content: 59 species, of which 5I ^'"e found within limits set for this work, following the most 

 recent list of species by Hoge, Mem. Inst. Butantan, 32, I565 (1966), IO5. 



Matrix for identification of species 



Matriz para ident i f icac i on dc especies 



AUBOCAKiNATUS 113 3 113 12 6 8-9 21 181 X 4 



ALTtKNAIUb M 1113 3 3 3 3 1 8-13 8-10 2A-37 155-185 3A-48 3 2 



ALTERNATU5 P 



26-37 156-190 30-46 



ALTlCOLUb 



1111113 13 



19 



178 



5 h 



AMMUUYTU10E5 310131331 8-9 9-10 23-25 149-160 30-38 4 4 



Significance of various values 

 Symbols for first nine characters: 

 0=Unknown; l=True; 2=Variable; 3"'^alse; 

 4= Inappl icable. 

 Symbols for color patterns: (0=Unknown) 

 Dorsal color ( X=Comb i nat ions) 

 l=Greenish, with or without black spotting 



and ventrolateral light stripe 

 2=Triangular blotches 

 3=Hollow, "C" shaped blotches 

 4=Large, squarish blotches 

 5=Round or rhomboidal spots 

 Ventral color 

 l=lmmaculate or lightly spotted 

 2=Checkered; with light and dark spots 

 3=Dark with lighter spots or blotches 

 4=Light with darker spotting 



Significado de los distintos valores 

 Sfmbolos de los primeros nueve caracteres: 

 0=Desconoc ido; l=Verdadero; 2=Variable; 

 3=Falso; 4= I napl icable. 

 Sfmbolos de los diseRos de color: ( 0=Desconoc ido) 

 Color dorsal (x=Comb inac iones) 

 l=Verdoso, con o sin manchas negras y cinta 



clara ventrolateral 

 2=Bloques triangulares 

 3=Bloques huecos, en forma de "C" 

 4=Bloques grandes, cuadr i la teros 

 5=Manchas redondas o romboidales 

 Color ventral 

 l=lnmaculado o ligeramente manchado 

 2=Cuadr iculado, con manchas claras y oscuras 

 3=0scuro con manchas claras 

 4=Claro con manchas oscuras 



