Bothrops bilineatus smaragdinus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Viperidae |
| Genus: | Bothrops |
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| Subspecies: | B. b. smaragdinus
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| Trinomial name | |
| Bothrops bilineatus smaragdinus (Hoge, 1966)
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- Common names: (Two-striped forest pitviper).
Bothrops bilineatus smaragdinus is a venomous pitviper subspecies[2] found in the northern and western Amazon region of South America.
Description[edit]
Same as for B. b. bilineatus, except that it lacks any dark vertical stripes on the supralabial scales and its green dorsal ground color is only patterned only with a peppering of black specks (no tan or reddish brown spots present).[3]
Geographic range[edit]
Found in South America in the Amazon regions of Southern Colombia (Departments of Putumayo, Amazonas, Southern Caqueta and Guaviare), southern Venezuela, northern and western Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.[3] The type locality given is "upper Purús river, State Amazonas, Brasil."[1]
References[edit]
- ^ 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).
- ^ "Bothrops bilineatus smaragdinus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 12 August 2008.
- ^ a b 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.
External links[edit]
- Bothrops bilineatus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 12 August 2008.
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