Atropoides nummifer mexicanus

Taxobox
name = "Atropoides nummifer mexicanus"

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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Serpentes
familia = Viperidae
subfamilia = Crotalinae
genus = "Atropoides"
species = "A. nummifer"
subspecies = "A. n. mexicanus"
trinomial = "Atropoides nummifer mexicanus"
trinomial_authority = (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854)
synonyms = * "Atropos Mexicanus" - Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854
* "Bothriechis mexicanus" - Cope, 1861
* "Bothriopsis mexicanus" - Cope, 1871
* "Bothriechis nummifera" var. "notata" - Fischer, 1880
* "Bothrops mexicanus" - Müller, 1880
* "Teleuraspis mexicanus" - Cope, 1887
* "Bothrops nummifer mexicanus" - Mertens, 1952
* "Porthidium nummifer mexicanum" - Campbell & Lamar, 1989
* "Atropoides nummifer mexicana" - Campbell & Brodie, 1992McDiarmid 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).]

:"Common names: Central American jumping pitviper.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.] ""Atropoides nummifer mexicanus" is a venomous pitviper subspeciesITIS|ID=635148|taxon="Atropoides nummifer mexicanus"|year=2008|date=1 August] found in Mexico and Central America as far south as Panama.

Description

Adults grow to an average of 50-70 cm in length. The maximum length is 86.7 cm for males and 97.9 cm for females. The body is extremely stout.

Geographic range

Found in the Atlantic drainage from Mexico (Tabasco and Chiapas) south to the Canal Zone in Panama, as well as on the Pacific slope of Costa Rica and Panama. Occurs at elevations of 40-1600 m. The type locality given is "Coban, capitale de la province de la Véra-Paz, (République de Guatemala, Amérique centrale)" (Cobán, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala).

Taxonomy

Regarded as a full species, "Atropoides mexicanus", by Campbell and Lamar (2004).

ee also

* List of crotaline species and subspecies
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* Snakebite

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