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    Species Accepted

    Bothrocophias hyoprora (Amaral, 1935)

    Amazonian Toad-headed Pitviper

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      10 results
      Amazonian Toad-headed Pitviper English
      Cuiama-Nariguda Portuguese
      Focinho-de-Porco Portuguese
      Hognose Lancehead English
      Hoja Podrida del Amazonas Spanish
      Jararaca Portuguese
      Jararaca-Bico-de-Folha Portuguese
      Jararaca-Bicuda Portuguese
      Jararaca-Nariguda Portuguese
      Jararaca-de-Focinho-Levantado Portuguese

      Treatments

      1 result

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      35 results
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      Amaral, & do, A. (1937). New species of ophidians from Colombia. Compte Rendu 12th Congress Internat. Zool., Lisbon 3 [139 (141)]: 1762-1767 [1935].
      De Carvalho, Vinícius T., Rafael de Fraga, Eduardo S. Eler, Ricardo A. Kawashita-Ribeiro, Eliana Feldberg, Richard C. Vogt, Marcos A. De Carvalho, Janaina da C. De Noronha, Luis Henrique Condrati and Shanna Bittencourt. (2013). Toad-headed pitviper Bothrocophias hyoprora (Amaral, 1935) (Serpentes, Viperidae): New records of geographic range in Brazil, hemipenial morphology, and chromosomal characterization. Herpetological Review 44 (3): 410-414.
      Peters, J. A. (1960). The snakes of Ecuador; check list and key. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 122: 489-541.
      Gutberlet, R. L., & Campbell, J. A. (2001). Generic recognition for a neglected lineage of South American pitvipers (Squamata: Viperidae: Crotalinae), with the description of a new species from the Colombian Chocó. American Museum Novitates (3316): 1-15.
      Bernal, R. (2025). Serpientes de Colombia-Guía de Campo. Serie de Guías Tropicales de Campo. 19: 396 Pp. Conservación Internacional Colombia, Bogotá.
      O’Shea, M. (2018). The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London,.
      Carrasco, P.A., C.I. Mattoni, G.C. Leynaud, and G.J. Scrocchi. (2012). Morphology, phylogeny and taxonomy of South American bothropoid pitvipers (Serpentes, Viperidae). Zoologica Scripta 41: 109-124.
      Prado, A. (1939). Notas ofiológicas 1. Sobre as serpentes do grupo Bothrops lansbergii, com a descrição de uma nova especie. Mem. Inst. Butantan 12: 1-3 + 1 Plate [1938/39].
      Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F., Maria Olga Borja, Proaño and Jean Marc Touzet. (2006). Distribution and natural history of the Ecuadorian Toad-headed Pitvipers of the genus Bothrocophias. Herpetozoa 19 (1/2):17-26.

      Citation

      Bothrocophias hyoprora (Amaral, 1935) in undefined