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BOTHROPS 



BothrODS bill neatus smaragd i nus Hoge 



1966 Bothrops bil ineatus smaragd i nus Hoge, Mem. Inst. Butantan, 32 (1565): 11^, pi. 1, figs. 

 2a-b. Type-locality: Upper Rio Perus, Estado do Amazonas, Brazil. 



Distribution: Amazonian Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil; one specimen in 

 Universidad Central, Caracas, from Territorio Amazonas, Venezuela, fits description 

 of this subspecies, according to Abdem Lancini. 



BOTHROPS BRAZIL I Hoge 



1553 Bothrops braz il i Hoge, Mem. Inst. Butantan, 25: I5, figs. 1-6 and 7b. Type-locality: Tome Assu 

 on Rio Acara-Mirim, Estado do Para, Brazil. 



Distribution: Probably throughout equatorial forests; known from Venezuela, Guianas, and Colombia, 

 as well as Para, Amazonas, and extreme northern Mato Grosso, Brazil. 



BOTHROPS CASTELNAUDI Dumeril, Bibron and Oumeril 



I854 Bothrops Castelnaudi Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril, Erp. Gen., 7: I5II. Type-locality: Not 



designated; Guichenot, in Castelnau, Expedition dans les Parties Centrales de I'Amerique du 

 Sud, Reptiles, 1855> 76, gave type locality as "Province du Goyaz", now Estado de Goias, 

 Brazil. 



I854 Atropos Castelnaut i i — Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril (in error for castelnaud i Dumeril, Bibron and 

 Dumeril), Erp. Gen., J: 388. 



1860 Bothr i ech i s Castelnau i — Cope ( in error for castelnaud i Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril), Proc. Acad. 



Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860: 345. 



1861 Bothr iops i s quadr i scutatus Peters, Monats. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, I86I: 359' Type-locality: Quito, 



Ecuador; in error, according to Peters, Rev. Ecuat. Ent. Parasit., 2, 1955> 347- 

 I87I Bothr iops i s castelnav i i — Cope ( in error for castelnaud i Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril), Proc. Acad. 



Nat. Sci. Phila., I87I: 2O9. 

 I885 Thanatoph i s montanus Posada-Arango, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, I889: JH. Type-locality: Mountain; 



of Antijpquia, Colombia, 2200 m. 

 1966 |_ Bothrops I quadr icar i na tus Hoge (in error for quadr i scutatus Peters), Mem. Inst. Butantan, J2 



(1965): 118. 



Distribution: Equatorial forests of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. 



BOTHROPS COLOMBIENSIS (HaUowell) 



1845 Tr igonocephalus Colombiens i s Hallowell, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1845: 246. Type-locality: 



"Republic of Colombia, within two hundred miles of Caracas". 

 1966 Bothrops colombiensis — Hoge, Mem. Inst. Butantan, J2 (1965)' l64. 



Distribution: Northern Venezuela except altitudes above 25OO m. 



BOTHROPS COTIARA (Gomes) 



1913 Laches i s cot iara Gomes, Ann. Paulistas Med. Cirurg., 1: 65, pi. 8, figs. 1-6. Type-locality: 



Nucleo Colonial Cruz Machado, Marechal Mallet, Estado do Parana, Brazil. 



1925 Bothrops cot iara — Amaral, Contrib. Harvard Inst. Trop. Biol. Med., 2: 53' 



1959 Bothrops cot iara — Hoge and Belluomini, Mem. Inst. Butantan, 28 (1957-1958): I96, figs. 3-8. 



Distribution: Araucaria forests of Argentina and Brazil. 



BOTHROPS ERYTHROMELAS Amaral 



1923 Bothrops erythromelas Amaral, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 8: 96. Type-locality: Near 

 Joazeiro, Estado da Bahia, Brazil. 



Distribution: Areas of Caatinga vegetation en Brazil. 



