:''Common names: Lansberg's hognosed pitviper.Campbell JA, Lamar WW (2004). ''The Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere''. 2 volumes. Ithaca and London: Comstock Publishing Associates. 870 pp., 1,500 plates. .'' ''Porthidium lansbergii'' is a species of venomous snake, a

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in the family Viperidae. The species is endemic to

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and South America. Four

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are recognized, including the

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described here.

Etymology

The

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, ''lansbergii'', is in honor of "M nsieur de Lansberge" ( Reinhart Frans von Lansberge), Dutch consul at

Caracas Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...

, Venezuela, in 1841.

Description

Adults of ''P. lansbergii'' average in total length (including tail), with a maximum of . A terrestrial snake, it is moderately slender.

Common names

Common names for ''P. lansbergii'' include Lansberge's hog-nosed pit-viper. It is also called ''patoca'' 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 ...

and Panama.

Geographic range

''Porthidium lansbergii'' is found in extreme eastern Central America in the xeric coastal lowlands of central and eastern Panama, in northern South America in the Atlantic lowlands of

and northern Venezuela, as well as in the Pacific lowlands of Ecuador. The type locality given is "''les environs de Turbaco epartment de Bolívar en Colombie'' ". According to Amaral (1929), the holotype is likely from

Tumaco Tumaco is a port city and municipality in the Nariño Department, Colombia, by the Pacific Ocean. It is located on the southwestern corner of Colombia, near the border with Ecuador, and experiences a hot tropical climate. Tumaco is inhabited mai ...

. According to the range map provided by Campbell & Lamar (2004), the subspecies ''P. l. rozei'' and ''P. l. lansbergii'' intergrade in the northern part of the

Guajira Peninsula The Guajira Peninsula ( es, Península de La Guajira, links=no, also spelled ''Goajira'', mainly in colonial period texts, guc, Hikükariby) is a peninsula in northern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela in the Caribbean. It is the northernm ...

Subspecies

'' Nota bene'': A trinomial authority (taxon author) in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than ''Porthidium''.

Taxonomy

Campbell & Lamar (2004) consider '' P. l. arcosae'' a full species.

Reproduction

''Porthidium lansbergii'' is viviparous."''Porthidium lansbergii'' ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

References

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* {{Taxonbar, from=Q3007074 lansbergii Snakes of South America Reptiles of Colombia Reptiles of Ecuador Reptiles of Panama Reptiles of Venezuela Reptiles described in 1841