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- Common names: black-headed bushmaster.[2]
Lachesis melanocephala is a venomous pitviper species found in Costa Rica. No subspecies are currently recognized.[3]
Description
Adults frequently grow to 1.9–2 m (6.2-6.6 ft) in total length. The largest reported specimens were 2.3 m (7.5 ft) by Solórzano (2004), and 2.4 m (7.9 ft) by Ripa (2001).
The top of the head is uniform black in color,[2] to which the specific name, melanocephala, refers.
Geographic range
Found in Costa Rica on the Pacific versant of southeastern Puntarenas province from near sea level to about 1500 m (about 4,900 feet). The type locality given is "tropical rainforest 9 km northern of Ciudad Neily in southeastern Provincia de Puntarenas, Costa Rica."[1]
Campbell and Lamar (2004) describe its range as southwestern Costa Rica and possibly extreme western Panama, but state that almost all locality records are from Puntarenas province.[2]
See also
- List of crotaline species and subspecies
- Crotalinae by common name
- Crotalinae by taxonomic synonyms
- Snakebite
References
- ^ a b McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
- ^ a b c Campbell JA, Lamar WW. 2004. The Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere. 2 volumes. Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca and London. 870 pp. 1500 plates. ISBN 0-8014-4141-2.
- ^ "Lachesis melanocephala". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 5 August 2008.
Further reading
- Solórzano, Alejandro, and Luis Cerdas. 1986. A New Subspecies of the Bushmaster, Lachesis muta, from Southeastern Costa Rica. Journal of Herpetology 20 (3): 463-466. (Lachesis muta melanocephala")
External links
- Lachesis melanocephala at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 5 August 2008.
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