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    Species Accepted

    Porthidium porrasi Lamar, 2003

    White-tailed Hognose Pitviper
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Porthidium
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      6 results
      Tamagá de Cola Blanca Spanish
      Vipera naso di porcello codabianca Italian
      Weißschwanz-Stülpnasenotter German
      White-tailed Hognose Pitviper English
      White-tailed Hognose Viper English
      toboba de porras Spanish

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      11 results
      Porras, L. W., & Solórzano, A. (2006). Costa Rica’s venomous snakes. Reptilia (GB) (48): 11-17.
      Sasa, M., Arias, E., & Chaves, G. (2025). Annotated list of amphibians and reptiles of Costa Rica: The role of the Museum of Zoology in cataloging the country’s herpetological diversity. Revista de Biología Tropical, 73(S2): E64536-E64536.
      PLECKER, ROEL DE, & QUETZAL DWYER. (2021). First Breeding Record of the White-tailed Hognosed Pitviper (Porthidium porrasi) in Captivity. Herpetological Review 52 (2): 329–332.
      Santos-Barrera, Georgina; Jesus Pacheco, Fernando Mendoza-Quijano, Federico Bolaños,Gerardo Cháves , Gretchen C. Daily, Paul R. Ehrlich & Gerardo Ceballos. (2008). Diversity, natural history and conservation of amphibians and reptiles from the San Vito Region, southwestern Costa Rica. Rev. Biol. Trop. 56 (2): 755-778.
      De Plecker, R. and Dwyer, Q. (2020). Porthidium porrasi (white-tailed hognosed pitviper). Maximum elevation. Herpetological Review 51: 154.
      Solorzano, A. (2004). Serpientes de Costa Rica - Snakes of Costa Rica. Editorial INBio, Costa Rica, 792 Pp.
      Beolens, B., & Michael Watkins, a. M. G. (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA.
      Porras, L. W., & Solórzano, A. (2006). Die Schlangen Costa Ricas. Reptilia (Münster) 11 (61): 20-27.
      Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy. (2014). Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue]. Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 Pp.
      Lamar, W.W.; Sasa M. (2003). A new species of hognose pitviper, genus Porthidium, from the southwestern Pacific of Costa Rica (Serpentes: Viperidae). Revista de Biologia Tropical 51(3-4):797-804.

      Citation

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