Metlapilcoatlus occiduus
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- Common names: Guatemalan jumping pit viper.[1]
Metlapilcoatlus occiduus is a pit viper subspecies[2] endemic to southern Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
Description
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Geographic range
Found in southern Mexico (southeastern Chiapas), southern and central Guatemala, and western El Salvador.[1] The type locality given is "Saint-Augustín (Guatemala), versant occidentale de la Córdillère. 610 mètres [2,000 ft] d´altitude". Actually, San Augustín is on the southern slope of Volcán Atitlán.[3]
Habitat
Its habitat includes subtropical wet forest on the Pacific versant from southeastern Chiapas, Mexico to western El Salvador. It also inhabits the pine-oak forest near Guatemala City. It can be found at altitudes varying from Script error: No such module "convert"..
Taxonomy
Regarded as a full species, Metlapilcoatlus occiduus, by Campbell and Lamar (2004).[1]
References
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- ↑ a b c d Campbell JA, Lamar WW. 2004. The Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere. 2 volumes. Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca and London. 870 pp. 1500 plates. Template:ISBN.
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Further reading
- Hoge, A.R. 1966. Preliminary account on Neotropical Crotalinae (Serpentes: Viperidae). Memórias do Instituto Butantan 32 [1965]: 109–184.
External links
- Metlapilcoatlus occiduus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 1 August 2008.