Atropoides nummifer occiduus

Taxobox
name = "Atropoides nummifer occiduus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Serpentes
familia = Viperidae
subfamilia = Crotalinae
genus = "Atropoides"
species = "A. nummifer"
subspecies = "A. n. occiduus"
trinomial = "Atropoides nummifer occiduus"
trinomial_authority = (Hoge, 1966)
synonyms = * "Bothrops affinis" - Bocourt, 1868
* "Bothriopsis affinis" - Cope. 1871
* "Trigonocephalus affinis" - Garman, 1884
* "Bothrops nummifer affinis" - Stuart, 1963
* "Bothrops nummifer occiduus" - Hoge, 1966 (replacement name for "Bothrops affinis" Bocourt, 1868)
* "Bothrops nummifer occidduus" - Hoge & Romano-Hoge, 1981
* "Porthidium nummifer occiduum" - Campbell & Lamar, 1989McDiarmid 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: Guatemalan 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 occiduus" is a venomous pitviper subspeciesITIS|ID=635149|taxon="Atropoides nummifer occiduus"|year=2008|date=1 August] found in southern Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador.

Description

Adults are usually 35-60 cm in length. The largest specimens reported are a male of 74.8 cm from Baja Verapaz and a female of 79.5 cm from Volcán de Agua, Escuintla. The build is very stout, although not so much as as "A. n. mexicanus".

Geographic range

Found in southern Mexico (southeastern Chiapas), southern and central Guatemala and western El Salvador. The type locality given is "Saint-Augustín (Guatemala), versant occidentale de la Córdillère. 610 mètres d´altitude." Actually, San Augustín is on the southern slope of Volcán Atitlán.

Taxonomy

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

ee also

* List of crotaline species and subspecies
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* Snakebite

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