''Bothrocophias myersi'', commonly known as the Myers toadheaded pitviper, is a species of
venomous pit viper
The Crotalinae, commonly known as pit vipers,Mehrtens JM (1987). ''Living Snakes of the World in Color''. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. . crotaline snakes (from grc, κρόταλον ''krotalon'' castanet), or pit adders, are a subfa ...
.
Geographic range
The snake is present in the Pacific departments of
Cauca and
Valle del Cauca in
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
. It occurs between 75 and 200 meters of altitude.
Etymology
The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
* in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database
In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
, ''myersi'', is in honor of the herpetologist
Charles William Myers
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "f ...
.
[Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael;Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Johns Hopkins University Press. Baltimore. xiii + 296 pp. .]
References
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Reptiles described in 2001
Reptiles of Colombia
Endemic fauna of Colombia
Viperinae