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BOTHROPS 



BOTHROPS PI RAJA I Amaral 



1523 Bothrops pirajai Amaral. Proc. New^England Zool. Club, 8: 55. Type-locality: llheus, Estado da 



Bah'a, Brazil. 

 1923 Bothrops neglecta Amaral, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 8: 100. Type-locality: Bah'a, Brazil. 



Distribution; Known only from southern Bah'a, Brazil. 



BOTHROPS PRADOI (Hoge) 



1948 Trimeresurus pradoi Hoge. Mem. Inst. Butantan, 20 (1547): I93. Type-locality: Pau Gigante, 



Estado do Espirito Santo, Brazil. 

 1966 Bothrops pradoi — Hoge. Mem. Inst. Butantan, 32 (1965): I32, pi. 8. 



Distribution: Esp'rito Santo to southern Bahia, Brazil. 



BOTHROPS PULCHER (Peters) 



1862 Tr iqonocephalus pulcher Peters, Monats Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1862: 672. Type-locality: Quito, 



Ecuador; in error, according to Peters, Rev. Ecuat. Ent. Parasit., 2, 1555> 3*7' 

 1525 Bothrops pulchra — Amaral, Mem. Inst. Butantan, 4: 240. 



Distribution: Equatorial forests in Amazonian lowlands of Ecuador and Peru. 



BOTHROPS PUNCTATUS (CarcTa) 



I856 Laches i s punctata Garc'a, Los Of idios Venenosas de Cauca, Cali, Colombia: 31> fig. 8. Type- 

 locality; Las Montanas de Oagua, Colombia. 



1510 Laches i s Mont icell i i Peracca, An. Mus. Napoli, 3 (l2): 2. Type-locality: Unknown; "America 

 trop icale". 



1523 Bothrops leptura Amaral, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 8: 102. Type-locality: Cana, eastern 

 Panama, 3OOO ft. 



1944 Bothrops punctatus — Dunn, Caldasia, 3' 21$. 



Distribution: Darien of Panama to northwestern Ecuador. 



BOTHROPS ROEDINGERI Mertens 



1942 Bothrops roedi nqer i Mertens, Beitrage zur Fauna Perus, 11: 284. Type-locality: Hacienda Huayri, 

 Peru. 



Distribution: Desert region. Pacific coast of Peru. 



BOTHROPS SANCTAECRUCIS Hoge 



1966 Bothrops sanctaecruci s Hoge. Mem. Inst. Butantan, 32 (1965): 133> pl» 9- Type-locality: Oromomo, 

 Rio Secure, upper Rio Beni, Bolivia. 



Distribution: Amazonian lowlands of Bolivia. 



BOTHROPS SCHLEGELI I (Berthold) 



1846 Tr igonocephalus schlegel i i Berthold, Nachr. Univ. Ges. Wiss. Gottingen: I47. Type-locality: 

 Popayan; indicated to be Popayan, Colombia by Dunn and Stuart, Copeia, 195*> 56- 



1859 Lachesis nitidus Gunther. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, I859: 414, pi. 20, fig. C. Type-locality: 

 Western Andes of Ecuador. 



1863 B. [othrops ] Schlegeli — Jan. Elenco Sist. Ofidi: I27. 



I87O Bothrops ( Teleurasp is ) n i oroadspersus Ste i ndachner, Sitz. Math.-Natur. CI. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 62: 



348, pi. 8. Type-locality: Central America. 

 1889 Thanatophis torvus Posada Arango, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1889: 345. Type-locality: Antioquia, 



Colomb i a . 

 1951 Bothrops schlegel I —Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sc i . Bull., 34: I73. 

 1966 Bothrops schleoell i — Hoge (in error for schlegel i i Berthold), Mem. Inst. Butantan, 32 (1965): I34. 



Distribution: Southern Mexico to Pacific Ecuador; mountains of Urena, Estado de Tachira, Caribbean 

 Venezuela. 



