''Bothrops jonathani'', known commonly as Jonathan's lancehead or the Cochabamba lancehead, is a
species of
venomous snake, a
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 ...
in the
family Viperidae.
[ McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T (1999). ''Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1''. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. (series). (volume).] The species is
endemic to
South America.
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 ...
, ''jonathani'', is in honor of
American
American(s) may refer to:
* American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America"
** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America
** American ancestry, pe ...
herpetologist Jonathan A. Campbell.
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Geographic range
''B. jonathani'' is found in Cochabamba Department of southern Bolivia
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and in adjacent northwestern Argentina.[
]
Habitat
''B. jonathani'' inhabits xeric areas of the Andes at altitudes of and higher.[Carrasco PA, Harvey MB, Muñoz Saravia A (2009). "The rare Andean pitviper ''Rhinocerophis jonathani'' (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae): redescription with comments on its systematics and biogeography". ''Zootaxa'' 2283: 1-15.]
References
Further reading
*Harvey, Michael B. (1994). "A new species of montane pitviper (Serpentes: Viperidae: ''Bothrops'') from Cochabamba, Bolivia". ''Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington'' 107 (1): 60–66. (''Bothrops jonathani'', new species).
jonathani
Reptiles of Bolivia
Endemic fauna of Bolivia
Reptiles described in 1994
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