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Bothriechis schlegelii (Berthold, 1846). Mexico (southeast) to 
Colombia, Venezuela (western), Ecuador (northern). 
Bothriopsis punctata (Garcia, 1896). Panama (Darien Province), 
Colombia (Pacific versant), Ecuador (northwest Pacific 
versant). 
Bothrops asper (Garman, 1883). Mexico to Colombia (northern), 
Venezuela (northern), Trinidad, Ecuador (Pacific versant). 
Lachesis muta (Linnaeus, 1766). Nicaragua (southern) to Colombia, 
Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana, Brazil, Ecuador, 
Peru, Bolivia (northern). 
Porthidium godmani (Gunther, 1863). Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, 
El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama (Cordillera de 
Talamanca). 
Porthidium lansbergii (Schlegel, 1841). Panama (Pacific versant 
of old Canal Zone to Darien Province), Colombia (northern), 
Venezuela (extreme northern). 
Porthidium nasutum (Bocourt, 1868). Mexico (southeast) to Panama 
(Atlantic versant except for cross country range in the 
Panama Canal area and Darien Province), Colombia (Pacific 
versant), Ecuador (extreme northern Pacific versant). 
Porthidium nummifer (Ruppel, 1845). Mexico (San Luis Potosi) to 
Panama (Atlantic versant of western Panama to the Canal, 
extreme southwestern Chiriqui Province). 
Porthidium ophryomegas (Bocourt, 1868). Guatemala to Costa Rica, 
Panama (western?). 
Porthidium picadoi (Dunn, 1939). Costa Rica, Panama (western 
Bocas del Toro Province). 
V. TESTUDINES (14 species) 
A. Cheloniidae (4 species) 
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758). Globally in tropical and 
subtropical seas. CITES Appendix I/USFWS Threatened. 
Chelonia agassizii Bocourt, 1868. Pacific (eastern) from 
California to Chile, east to the Galapagos and Papua New 
Guinea. CITES Appendix I/USFWS Threatened. 
Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758). Globally in temperate and 
tropical seas. CITES Appendix I/USFWS Threatened. 
Eretmochelys imbricata (Linnaeus, 1766). Globally in tropical 
seas, occasionally in temperate seas. CITES Appendix I/USFWS 
Endangered. 
Lepidochelys kempii (Garman, 1880). Atlantic Ocean (northern) and 
Gulf of Mexico. Reported from Colombia and Venezuela. 
Panama? CITES Appendix I/USFWS Endangered. 
Lepidochelys olivacea (Eschscholtz, 1829). Pacific and 
Indian Oceans, Caribbean Sea from Cuba and eastward from 
Cartagena, Colombia (Panama?), Atlantic Ocean south to 
Brazil, western central African coast. CITES Appendix 
I/USFWS Threatened. 
B. Chelydridae (1 species) 
