Bothrocophias microphthalmus ( Cope, 1875 )

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 : 10

Bothrocophias microphthalmus ( Cope, 1875)

Type locality. Between Balso Puerto and Moyabamba, Peru .

Distribution. Known from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, mostly in Amazonia ( Plt. 51A ). In Brazil, recorded from a single locality in western Amazonia ( Bernarde et al., 2012a; Plt. 51A ) at low elevation ( Plt. 51B ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Campbell and Lamar (2004). Observed in the field in forest ( Campbell and Lamar, 2004).

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Plate 51. Distribution map of Bothrocophias microphthalmus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.