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Lachesis melanocephala Solórzano & Cerdas, 1986

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Solórzano, A., & Cerdas, L. A new subspecies of the bushmaster, Lachesis muta, from Southeastern Costa Rica.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Squamata
family
Viperidae
genus
Lachesis
species
Lachesis melanocephala

Name

Synonyms
Lachesis muta melanocephala Solórzano & Cerdas, 1986
Homonyms
Lachesis melanocephala Solórzano & Cerdas, 1986
Common names
Black-headed Bushmaster in English
Black-headed bushmaster in English
Black-headed bushmaster in English
Cascabel muda in Spanish
Matabuey in Spanish
Plato Negro in Spanish
Schwarzkopf-Buschmeister in German
Schwarzkopf-Buschmeister in German
Vipera dei cespugli testanera in Italian
feketefejű némacsörgőkígyó in Hungarian
křovinář černohlavý in Czech
matabuey negra in Spanish
黑頭巨蝮 in Chinese
Black-headed Bushmaster in English
Cascabel muda in Spanish
Matabuey in Spanish

Bibliographic References

  1. McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré, 1999: null. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. xi + 511.
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