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BOTHROPS 



BOTHROPS ATROX (Linnaeus) 



1758 Coluber airox Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10: 222. Type-locality: "Asia"; restricted to 



Surinam, according to Hoge, Mem. Inst. Butantan, 32, I965 (1566), II3. 

 1824 BothroDS furia Waqler. in Spix, Sp. Nov. Serp. Bras.: 52, pi. 20. Type-locality: Rio Amazon, 



Brazil? 

 1842 BothroDS Sabini i Gray, Zoological Miscellany: 47. Type-locality: Demerara, Guyana. 

 1842 Bothrops subscutatus Gray. Zoological Miscellany: 47. Type-locality: Demerara, Guyana. 

 1849 Bothrops affinis Gray. Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus.; 7- Type-locality: Berbice; Demarara; Tropical 



Amcr ica. 

 1534 B.r othroDs ] Neuvoiedi i Venezuelenz i Briceno, Bol. Ministerio Salubr. Agr'c. Cria, Venezuela, 



1 (15): 46. Type-locality: R'o de Oro region, Venezuela. 



Distribution: Tropical forests of Guianas, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and 

 Bolivia; also Misiones, Argentina. 



BOTHROPS BARNETTI Parker 



1938 Bothrops barnett i Parl<er, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (u) 2: 447. Type-locality: From mouths of 

 Quebradas Honda and Perines, between Lobitos and Talara, northern Peru. 



Distribution: Coast of northern Peru. 



BOTHROPS BICOLOR Bocourt 



1868 Bothrops bicolor Bocourt, Ann. Sc i . Nat. Paris (5) 10: 202. Type-locality: Forests of St. 

 Augustin, on western slope of Cordillera, Departamento de Solola, Guatemala, 6IO m. 



I878 Bothrops ( Bothriechis ) Bernoull i i MHller, Verh. Nat. Ges. Basel, 6: 399, pi. 3, fig. A. Type- 

 locality: Volcan Atitlan, Guatemala. 



Distribution: Pacific foothills of Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico. 



BOTHROPS BILINEATUS (Wied) 



I825 C.[ ophias J bilineatus Wied, Beitrage zur Naturgesch ichte von Brasilien, 1; 483. Type-locality: 



Villa Vijoza, = Maroba, according to Hoge and Lancini, Publ. Oc. Mus. Cien. Nat. Caracas, Zool., 

 11, 1962, 17, on Rio Peruhype, Estado da Bah'a, Brazil. 



I854 Bothrops b il i neatus — Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril, Erp. Gen., 7' 151^» 



Distribution: Amazonian South America; an isolated Atlantic slope population in Brazil. 

 Content: Two subspecies. 



Key to the subspecies Clave de subespecies 



1. Dorsum ground color green, with all scales 1. Dorso coloreado en verde, todas las escamas 



of head and back heavily dark-spotted; no de la cabeza y el dorso densamente mancha- 



vertical dark bars on upper labials das de oscuro; sin barras verticales oscu- 



smaraqd i nus ras en las labiales super iores- smaragdinus 



Color not as above b il i neatus Coloracion no como el anterior b i 1 i neatus 



Bothrops bill neatus b i 1 i neatus (Wied) 



1869 Tr i qonocephalus ( Bothrops ) arboreus Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, 11: 157« Type- 

 locality: Bah'a, Brazil. 

 1966 Bothrops bilineatus b i 1 i neatus — Hoge. Mem. Inst. Butantan, 32 (1965): 114, pi. 1, fig. 1. 



Distribution: Equatorial forests of Venezuela and Guianas; Territorio Federal Amapa, 

 Brazil; and isolated population in forests of Atlantic slope from Bah'a to Rio de 

 Jane i ro, Braz i 1. 



