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BOTHROPS 



BOTHROPS JARARACA (Wled), continued 



1824 Bothrops leucost i qma Waqler, in Spix, Sp. Mov. Serp. Bras.: 53> pl- 21, fig. 1. Type-locality: 



Bah'a, Brazil. 

 1824 Bothrops tessellatus Waqler. in Spix, Sp. Nov. Serp. Bras.: 54, pi. 21, fig. 2. Type-locality: 



Rio San Francisco, Brazil. 



1824 Bothrops taeniatus Waqler. in Spix, Sp. Nov. Serp. Bras.: 55, pi. 21, fig. 3. Type-locality: 



Rio Amazonas, Brazil. 



1825 Cj" ophias ] Jararakka Wied. Beitrage zur Naturgesch i chte von Brasilien, 1: 47O. Type-locality: 



T\lot mentioned. 

 18^0 [ Bothrops ] Jararaca — Waqler. Nat. Syst. Amph. : I74. 

 1925 Bothrops iararaca — Amaral . Cont. Harvard Inst. Trop. Biol. Med., 2: 42; pi. 2; pi. 4, figs. 2-2'; 



pl. 6A, figs. 2-2'; pi. 7, figs. 2-2'. 



Distribution: Brazil from central Minas Gerais south; Paraguay; Misiones, Argentina. 



BOTHROPS JARARACUSSU Lacerda 



1884 Bothrops jararacussu Lacerda, Lejons sur le Venin des Serpents du Bresil: 8. Type-locality; 



Province of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 

 1925 Bothrops jararacussu — Amaral, Cont. Harvard Inst. Trop. Biol. Med., 2: 43, pl. J; pl. 4, figs. 



3-3'; pl. 6A, figs. 3-3'; pl. 7, figs. 3-3'- 



Distribution: Northeastern Argentina in Misiones, southern Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil from 

 southern Minas Gerais southward. 



BOTHROPS LANSBERGI I (Schlegel) 



1841 Tr iqonocephalus lansberqii Schleqel, Mag. Zool. Rept., (I-3)) pl- !• Type-locality: Turbaco, 



Colomb ia . 

 1860 T.[ eleurasp is] Castelnau i var. brachystoma Cope. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc i . Phila., 1859= 335- Type- 



focal i ty: Unknown. 

 othrops ] Lansberqi — Jan. Elenco Sist. Ofidi: 12/. 

 I889 Thanatophis sutus Posada Arango, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, I885: 3^^' Type-locality: Zea, 

 Colomb i a. 



Distribution: Discontinuous; Caribbean Venezuela and Colombia; Honduras. 



Content: Three subspecies. 



Comment: No recent author has indicated with which subspecies should be associated the synonyms 

 here 1 i sted. 



Key to the subspecies Clave de subespecies 



1. Ventrals more than 146 2 1. Ventrales mas de 146 2 



Ventrals menos de 146 roze i Ventrales menos de 146 roze i 



2. Snout raised sharply upward lansberq i i 2. Hocico levantado bruscamente hacia arriba-- 



Snout not at all turned up in front lansbero i i 



-annectens Hocico no levantado hacia arriba — annectens 



Bothrops lansberq i i lansberq i i (Schlegel) 



1959 B. [ othrops ] l.[ ansberq i i j lansberq i i — Roze, Amer. Mus. Novitates, 193*= H- 

 Distribution: Arid and semi-arid regions of Caribbean coast in Colombia. 



