Metlapilcoatlus occiduus

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Metlapilcoatlus occiduus - Wikipedia

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Metlapilcoatlus occiduus
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Viperidae
Genus:	Metlapilcoatlus
Species:	M. occiduus
Binomial name
*Metlapilcoatlus occiduus* (Hoge, 1966)
Synonyms
Bothrops affinis Bocourt, 1868 Bothriopsis affinis – Cope, 1871 Trigonocephalus affinis – Garman, 1884 Bothrops nummifer affinis – Stuart, 1963 Bothrops nummifer occiduus Hoge, 1966 (replacement name for Bothrops affinis Bocourt, 1868) Bothrops nummifer occiduus – Hoge & Romano-Hoge, 1981 Porthidium nummifer occiduum – Campbell & Lamar, 1989^[2]

Common names: Guatemalan jumping pit viper.^[3]

Metlapilcoatlus occiduus is a pit viper subspecies^[4] endemic to southern Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador.

Description

Adults are usually 35–60 cm (13+3⁄4–23+5⁄8 in) in total length. The largest specimens reported are a male of 74.8 cm (29+1⁄2 in) from Baja Verapaz, Guatemala, and a female of 79.5 cm (31+1⁄4 in) from Volcán de Agua, Escuintla, Guatemala. The build is very stout, although not so much as that of M. mexicanus.^[3]

Geographic range

Found in southern Mexico (southeastern Chiapas), southern and central Guatemala, and western El Salvador.^[3] The type locality given is "Saint-Augustín (Guatemala), versant occidentale de la Córdillère. 610 mètres [2,000 ft] d´altitude". Actually, San Augustín is on the southern slope of Volcán Atitlán.^[2]

Habitat

Its habitat includes subtropical wet forest on the Pacific versant from southeastern Chiapas, Mexico to western El Salvador. It also inhabits the pine-oak forest near Guatemala City. It can be found at altitudes varying from 1,000–1,600 m (3,300–5,200 ft).

Taxonomy

Regarded as a full species, Metlapilcoatlus occiduus, by Campbell and Lamar (2004).^[3]

References

^ López-Luna, M.A. & Canseco-Márquez, L. 2014. Atropoides occiduus (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T197459A114584467. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T197459A2485704.en. Downloaded on 05 November 2018.
^ ^a ^b McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Campbell JA, Lamar WW. 2004. The Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere. 2 volumes. Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca and London. 870 pp. 1500 plates. ISBN 0-8014-4141-2.
^ "Atropoides occiduus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 1 August 2008.

External links

Metlapilcoatlus occiduus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 1 August 2008.

Taxon identifiers
Atropoides nummifer occiduus	Wikidata: Q47508687 ITIS: 635149
Atropoides occiduus	Wikidata: Q2869824 GBIF: 8303651 iNaturalist: 94899 ITIS: 1058507 IUCN: 197459 NCBI: 335858 RD: occiduus

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