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Bothriechis nitidus
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Ecuadorian Eyelash-Pitviper

Bothriechis nitidus (Günther, 1859)

Also calledEcuador-Lanzenotter (deu) · Víbora de pestañas ecuatoriana (spa) · cabeza de candado (spa) · equis voladora (Manabí) (spa) · papagayo (Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas) (spa) · zampiña (cloud forest populations)\ (spa)

This species is in the Catalogue of Life but not yet in the 2023 GBIF backbone or on iNaturalist: most likely it was described, or split from another species, very recently. What is known so far is below.

Recorded from
Ecuador
Also published as
Bothrops boussingaultii Jan, 1863; Lachesis nitidus Günther, 1859
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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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References

  • Jan, G. (1863). Elenco Sistematico degli Ofidi descriti e disegnati per l’Iconografia Generale. Milano, A. Lombardi. Vii + 143 Pp.
  • Sunyer, & Javier. (2014). An updated checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Nicaragua. Mesoamerican Herpetology 1 (2): 186–202.
  • Garcia, E. (1896). Los Ofidios Venenosos del Cauca. Métodos empíricos y racionales empleados contra los accidentes producidos por la mordedura de esos reptiles. Cali: Librería Colombiana, Xv + 102 Pp.
  • Arteaga AF, & Bustamante-Enríquez LM and Guayasamin JM. (2013). The Amphibians and Reptiles of Mindo. http://www.tropicalherping.com.
  • Kuch, U., & Freire, A. (1995). Bemerkungen zur geographischen Verbreitung und Variabilität Schlegels Palmen-Lanzenotter, Bothriechis schlegelii (Berthold, 1846), in Ecuador (Squamata: Serpentes: Viperidae). Herpetozoa 8 (1/2): 49-58.
  • Solorzano, A., Gomez, L. D., & Crother, B. I. (1998). Redescription and validation of Bothriechis supraciliaris (Serpentes: Viperidae). Revista de Biologia Tropical 46 (2): 453-.

From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.