Bothrops iglesiasi

Bothrops iglesiasi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Viperidae
Subfamily: Crotalinae
Genus: Bothrops
Species: B. iglesiasi
Binomial name
Bothrops iglesiasi
Amaral, 1923
Synonyms

Bothrops iglesiasi, or the Cerrado lancehead, is a species of venomous snake in the Viperidae family.[2] It is endemic to Brazil.[3]

Taxonomy

Two different scientific names are in use for this species because there is not consensus among authorities.

Etymology

The specific name, iglesiasi, is in honor of Assis Iglesias, a "travelling naturalist from Butantan", who in 1918 collected the 20 specimens from which Amaral described this snake as a species new to science.

The specific name, lutzi, is in honor of Adolfo Lutz of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, who collected the type specimen, upon which Miranda-Ribeiro based his new species description. Adolfo Lutz was the father of Brazilian herpetologist Bertha Lutz.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 "Bothrops ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org
  2. McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  3. 1 2 "Bothrops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 3 November 2006.
  4. species.wikimedia.org.
  5. "Bothrops ". Dahms Tierleben. http://www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Serpentes/colubroidea/viperidae/Crotalinae
  6. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Bothrops lutzi, p. 163).

Further reading


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