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Emerald Horned Pitviper
Ophryacus smaragdinus Grünwald, Jones, Franz-Chávez & Ahumada-Carillo, 2015
Also calledNauyaca de cuernos esmeralda (spa)
First described in: Grünwald, Christoph I., Jason M. Jones, Hector Franz-Chávez, and Iván T. Ahumada-Carrillo, 2015: A new species of Ophryacus (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae) from eastern Mexico, with comments on the taxonomy of related pitvipers. Mesoamerican Herpetology, vol. 2, no. 4. 388-416.
This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.
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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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Ophryacus smaragdinus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 8982938.