Lachesis muta ( Linnaeus, 1766 )

Nogueira, Cristiano C., Argôlo, Antonio J. S., Arzamendia, Vanesa, Azevedo, Josué A., Barbo, Fausto E., Bérnils, Renato S., Bolochio, Bruna E., Borges-Martins, Marcio, Brasil-Godinho, Marcela, Braz, Henrique, Buononato, Marcus A., Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F., Colli, Guarino R., Costa, Henrique C., Franco, Francisco L., Giraudo, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Rodrigo C., Guedes, Thaís, Hoogmoed, Marinus S., Marques, Otavio A. V., Montingelli, Giovanna G., Passos, Paulo, Prudente, Ana L. C., Rivas, Gilson A., Sanchez, Paola M., Serrano, Filipe C., Silva Jr., Nelson J., Strüssmann, Christine, Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S., Zaher, Hussam, Sawaya, Ricardo J. & Martins, Marcio, 2019, Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna, South American Journal of Herpetology 14 (s 1), pp. 1-274 : 13

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.2994/SAJH-D-19-00120.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10062519

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scientific name

Lachesis muta ( Linnaeus, 1766 )
status

 

Lachesis muta ( Linnaeus, 1766) View in CoL

Type locality. Suriname. Corrected to Vitória ,state of Espírito Santo, Brazil, by Fernandes et al. (2004) .

Distribution. Widespread in forested South America, occurring in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela ( Plt. 80A View Plate 80 ). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia and northern Atlantic Forest, forming a disjunct distribution, with marginal records in the northern portion of the Cerrado and a single record in upland forest in Caatinga ( Plt. 80A View Plate 80 ). Recorded mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 80B View Plate 80 ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Fernandes et al. (2004). Observed in the field in primary and secondary forest ( Martins and Oliveira, 1998; Campbell and Lamar, 2004; Bernarde and Abe, 2006; Bérnils, 2009; Silva-Soares et al., 2011), and also disturbed areas, including pasture, and cocoa plantation ( Argôlo, 2004; Bernarde and Abe, 2006).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Viperidae

Genus

Lachesis

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