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    Species Accepted

    Bothrocophias microphthalmus (Cope, 1875)

    Small-eyed Toad-headed Pit Viper

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      7 results
      Cuatro Narices de Montaña Spanish
      Jararaca Portuguese
      Jararaca-Bicuda Portuguese
      Jararaca-Nariguda Portuguese
      Small-eyed Toad-headed Pit Viper English
      Small-eyed Toadhead English
      Småøjet Tudsehovedhugorm Danish

      Treatments

      1 result

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      34 results
      Lehr, E. (2002). Amphibien und Reptilien in Peru. Natur Und Tier-Verlag (Münster), 208 Pp.
      Gutberlet, R. L., & Campbell, J. A. (2001). Generic recognition for a neglected lineage of South American pitvipers (Squamata: Viperidae: Crotalinae), with the description of a new species from the Colombian Chocó. American Museum Novitates (3316): 1-15.
      MURPHY R. W., SMITH A. and NGO A. (2007). The versions of Cope’s Batrachia and Reptilia of Costa Rica. Bibliotheca Herpetologica 7 (1):
      Bernal, R. (2025). Serpientes de Colombia-Guía de Campo. Serie de Guías Tropicales de Campo. 19: 396 Pp. Conservación Internacional Colombia, Bogotá.
      Cope, E. D. (1875). Report on the Reptiles brought by Professor James Orton from the middle and upper Amazon and western Peru. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia N.S. (2) 8: 159-183 [Sometimes Thought to Be Published 1876 but See Murphy et Al. 2007 for Clarification].
      Carrasco, P.A., C.I. Mattoni, G.C. Leynaud, and G.J. Scrocchi. (2012). Morphology, phylogeny and taxonomy of South American bothropoid pitvipers (Serpentes, Viperidae). Zoologica Scripta 41: 109-124.
      Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F., Maria Olga Borja, Proaño and Jean Marc Touzet. (2006). Distribution and natural history of the Ecuadorian Toad-headed Pitvipers of the genus Bothrocophias. Herpetozoa 19 (1/2):17-26.
      Harvey, M.B.; et al. (2005). Revision of the venomous snakes of Bolivia. II. The pitvipers (Serpentes: Viperidae). Annals of the Carnegie Museum 74 (1): 1-38.
      Bentley AG, Reyes-Puig JP, Hidalgo AB, Altamirano JAH, Barragan-Paladines ME, Yánez-Muñoz MH, Almeida-Reinoso D, Guerra MA, Arboleda J, Culebras J, Fiallos Moreno DA, Sáenz J, Yoder PM, Best D, Vizcarra Vasconez RS, Peñafiel Flores MG, Franchini A, Carlson E, Segovia Larrea JI, et al. (2025). Snake (Serpentes, Reptilia) diversity in Mera, Ecuador: a citizen‑science approach to surveying a biodiversity hotspot of the western Amazon. Check List 21(5): 945-969.
      McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. (1999). Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue]. Herpetologists’ League, 511 Pp.

      Citation

      Bothrocophias microphthalmus (Cope, 1875) in undefined