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BOTHROPS 



Bothrops n igrovi rid is niqrovir idi s (Peters) 



1929 Bothrops niqroviridis nigroviridis — Barbour and Lover i dge, Bull. Antivenin Inst. America, 

 3: 1. 



Distribution; Costa Rica to Panama. 



Bothrops nigroviridis aur ifer (Salvin) 



I860 Thamnocenchris aurifer Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, I860: 459, Pl- 32, fig- !• Type- 

 locality: Coban, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. 

 18/8 Bothrops aurifer — Muller, Verb. Naturforsch. Ges. Basel, 6: AOl. 

 1529 Bothrops n i grov ir id i s aur if era — Barbourand Loveridge, Bull. Antivenin Inst. America, 3' !• 



Distribution: Caribbean slope from Chiapas, Mexico to Guatemala. 



Bothrops n i grov ir id i s march i i Barbour and Loveridge 



1929 Bothrops n i grov ir id i s march i i Barbour and Loveridge, Bull. Antivenin Inst. America, '}: 2, 

 fig. 1. Type-locality: Quimistan, Santa Barbara, Honduras. 



Distribution: Vicinity of type locality. 



Comment: Although not listed by Hoge as a valid subspecies of n i grov i r i d i s by Hoge, Mem. 

 Inst. Butantan, 32, 1965 (1966), I29, neither is it given as a synonym of any other taxon. 

 Since it apparently has not been synonymized with any existing taxon, we list it here. 



BOTHROPS NUMMIFER (Ruppell) 



1845 Atropos nummifer Ruppell. Verb. Mus. Senckenberg, 3" 313* Type-locality: Mexico; restricted 



to Teapa. Tabasco, Mexico, by Burger, Bull. Chicago Acad. Sc i . , 9i ^35^> 65. 

 othrops j nummifer — Jan, Elenco Sist. Of idi: 126. 



Distribution; Southeastern edge of Mexican Plateau in San Luis Potos' and Oaxaca to Costa Rica. 



Content: Three subspecies, one of which (the nominate subspecies) is ex tral im i tal. 



Key to the subspecies Clave de subespecies 



1. Lateral spots vertically elongate and many 1. Manchas laterales alargadas vert icalmente 



fused with dorsal blotches mex icanus y muchas fusionadas con los bloques 



Lateral spots rounded, very few fused with dorsales mex icanus 



dorsal blotches occ i duus Manchas laterales redondeadas, muy pocas 



-fusionadas con los bloques dorsales 



occ iduus 



Bothrops numm ifer mex icanus (Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril) 



I854 Atropos Mex icanus Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril, Erp. Gen., ] (part 2): 1521, pi. 83 bis, 



figs. 1-2. Type-locality; Coban, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. 

 1880 Bothr iech i s nummifer var. notata Fischer, Arch, fur Naturg., 46: 222, pi. 8, figs. 10-12. 



Type locality: Coban, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. 

 1882 Bothrops mex icanus — Muller, Verb. Naturforsch. Ges. Basel, /• 15*- 

 1952 Bothrops nummifer mexicanus — Mertens, Abh. Senckenberg Naturforsch. Ges., 487: 79- 



Distribution: Lower elevations on Caribbean slope from extreme southern Mexico to Panama. 



