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Bothrops jonathani

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Species of snake

Bothrops jonathani
Conservation status

Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Viperidae
Genus: Bothrops
Species: B. jonathani
Binomial name
Bothrops jonathani
Harvey, 1994
Synonyms
  • Bothrops jonathani
    Harvey, 1994
  • Rhinocerophis jonathani
    — Fenwick et al., 2009
  • Bothrops jonathani
    — Carrasco et al., 2012

Bothrops jonathani, known commonly as Jonathan's lancehead or the Cochabamba lancehead, is a species of venomous snake, a pit viper in the family Viperidae. The species is endemic to South America.

Etymology

The specific name, jonathani, is in honor of American herpetologist Jonathan A. Campbell.

Geographic range

B. jonathani is found in Cochabamba Department of southern Bolivia and in adjacent northwestern Argentina.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of B. jonathani is xeric areas of shrubland in the Andes at altitudes of 1,600–3,300 m (5,200–10,800 ft).

Behavior

B. jonathani is terrestrial. It basks on rocks, or shelters under them.

Diet

B. jonathani preys predominately upon mice, but also eats other small vertebrates.

Reproduction

B. jonathani is ovoviviparous.

References

  1. ^ Aguayo R, Aparicio J, Arzamendia V, Embert D, Fitzgerald L, Giraudo A, Gonzales L, Kacoliris F, Montero R, Muñoz A, Pelegrin N, Scrocchi G, Williams J (2019). "Bothrops jonathani ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T15203950A15203958.en. Accessed on 12 July 2024.
  2. ^ Species Bothrops jonathani at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  3. 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).
  4. "Bothrops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 3 November 2006.
  5. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Bothrops jonathani, pp. 46, 136).
  6. Carrasco PA, Harvey MB, Muñoz Saravia A (2009). "The rare Andean pitviper Rhinocerophis jonathani (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae): redescription with comments on its systematics and biogeography". Zootaxa 2283: 1-15.

Further reading

  • Carrasco PA, Mattoni CI, Leynaud GC, Scrocchi GJ (2012). "Morphology, phylogeny and taxonomy of South American bothropoid pitvipers (Serpentes, Viperidae)". Zoologica Scripta 41: 109–124.
  • Fenwick AM, Gutberlet RL Jr, Evans JA, Parkinson CL (2009). "Morphological and molecular evidence for phylogeny and classification of South American pitvipers, genera Bothrops, Bothriopsis, and Bothrocophias (Serpentes: Viperidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 156 (3): 617–640. (Bothrocophias jonathani, new combination).
  • Harvey, Michael B. (1994). "A new species of montane pitviper (Serpentes: Viperidae: Bothrops) from Cochabamba, Bolivia". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 107 (1): 60–66. (Bothrops jonathani, new species).
  • Harvey, Michael B.; Aparicio E., James; Gonzales A., Lucindo (2005). "Revision of the venomous snakes of Bolivia. II. The pitvipers (Serpentes: Viperidae)". Annals of Carnegie Museum 74 (1): 1–37.
  • Jansen M (2008). "Die Lanzenottern der Gattung Bothrops in Bolivien ". Draco 8 (33): 50–56. (in German).


Taxon identifiers
Bothrops jonathani


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