Английская Википедия:Bothriechis marchi

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Bothriechis marchi, also known as Honduran palm pit viper and March's palm pit viper, is a species of pitviper, a venomous snake, in the subfamily Crotalinae of the family Viperidae. The species is endemic to Central America.[1][2][3] There are no subspecies that are recognized as being valid.[2]

Etymology

The specific name, marchi, is in honor of herpetologist Douglas H. March, who died from the bite of a fer-de-lance in 1939.[4]

Description

Adults of B. marchi often grow to more than Шаблон:Convert in total length (including tail). The largest specimen on record was Шаблон:Convert. March's palm pit viper is green and relatively slender with a prehensile tail.[3]

Geographic range

Bothriechis marchi is found on the Atlantic versant of northwestern Honduras.[1][2] Its range might extend into eastern Guatemala. Records from Nicaragua are probably in error.[1] It occurs in mesic forest at elevations of Шаблон:Convert altitude. The type locality given is "the Gold Mines at Quimistan [probably El Oro, Municipio de Quimistán, in the Sierra de Espíritu Santo to the northwest of the town of Quimistán], [Departamento de] Santa Barbara, Honduras Republic".[5]

Reproduction

Bothriechis marchi is viviparous.[2]

References

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Further reading

  • Barbour T, Loveridge A (1929). "On some Hondurian and Guatemalan snakes with the description of a new arboreal pit viper of the genus Bothrops ". Bulletin of the Antivenin Institute of America 3: 1–3. (Bothrops nigroviridis marchi, new subspecies).

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  3. 3,0 3,1 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. Шаблон:ISBN.
  4. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. Шаблон:ISBN. (Bothriechis marchi, p. 168).
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