Redescription and validation of Bothriechis supraciliaris (Serpentes: Viperidae)
The populations of pitvipers from south western Costa Rica, have traditionally been identified as Bothriechis schlegelii (Berthold). However, in 1954 E. H. Taylor described one specimen from the area as a new subspecies, B. schlegelii supraciliaris. Werrnan returned supraciliaris to synonymy with sc...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 1998 |
| País: | Costa Rica |
| Institución: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/19701 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/19701 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | bothriechis viperidae serpentes pitvipers new species Costa Rica pleistocene refugia taxonomy |
| Sumario: | The populations of pitvipers from south western Costa Rica, have traditionally been identified as Bothriechis schlegelii (Berthold). However, in 1954 E. H. Taylor described one specimen from the area as a new subspecies, B. schlegelii supraciliaris. Werrnan returned supraciliaris to synonymy with schlegelii four decades latero However, morphometry and color pattern in a SW Costa Rica population (25 specimens) differ from those of specimens (N=57) from other parts of Costa Rica and from descriptions of South American specimens. Here ¡he epithet Bothriechis schlegelii supraciliaris Taylor 1954, is reestablished as a valid taxon and elevated to specific rank as B. supraciliaris stat.nov. It is closely related to B. schlegelii from which it differs by íts color patterns based on a uniforrn ground color with polymorphic dorsal designs, and its lower counts of ventral and caudal scales. |
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