Porthidium lansbergii

Porthidium lansbergii
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Viperidae
Subfamily:	Crotalinae
Genus:	Porthidium
Species:	P. lansbergii
Binomial name
Porthidium lansbergii (Schlegel, 1841)
Synonyms
Trigonocephalus lansbergii Schlegel, 1841 T[eleuraspis]. Castelnaui Var. brachystoma Cope, 1860 T[eleuraspis]. Lansbergi — Cope, 1860 Bothriechis brachystoma — Cope, 1860 Bothrops lansbergii — Günther, 1863 B[othrops]. Boussingaultii Jan, 1863 B[othrops]. Lansbergi — Jan, 1863 Porthidium lansbergii — Cope, 1871 Bothriopsis brachystoma — Cope, 1871 B[othriopsis]. castelnavi var. brachystoma — Cope, 1871 Bothrops brachystoma — F. Müller, 1880 Bothriopsis br[achystoma]. — F. Müller, 1880 Brothriopsis brachystoma — Cope, 1887 Teleuraspis castelnaudi var. brachystoma — Cope, 1887 Th[anatos]. Lansbergii — Posada Arango, 1889 Th[anatophis]. Lansbergi — Posada Arango, 1889 Th[anatos]. Boussingaultii — Posada Arango, 1889 Th[anatophis]. Boussingaultii — Posada Arango, 1889 Bothriechis lansbergii — Günther, 1895 Lachesis lansbergii — Boulenger, 1896 Lachesis brachystoma — Boulenger, 1896 Trimeresurus brachystoma — Mocquard, 1989 Bothriechis lansbergii — Recinos, 1913 Lachesis lansbergi — Griffin, 1916 Bothrops lansbergii venezuelensis Roze, 1959 B[othrops]. l[ansbergii]. lansbergii — Roze, 1959 Porthidium lansbergii — Campbell & Lamar, 1989 Porthidium lansbergii lansbergii — Campbell & Lamar, 1989

Common names: Lansberg's hognosed pitviper.

Porthidium lansbergii is a venomous pitviper species found in Central and South America. Currently, four subspecies are recognized, including the nominate subspecies described here.

Etymology

The specific name, lansbergii, is in honor of "M[onsieur]. de Lansberge" (Reinhart Frans von Lansberge), Dutch consul at Caracas, Venezuela, in 1841.

Description

Adults average in total length with a maximum of . Terrestrial and moderately slender.

Common names

Lansberg's hognosed pitviper. Also called patoco in Colombia and Panama.

Geographic range

Found in extreme eastern Central America in the xeric coastal lowlands of central and eastern Panama. In northern South America in the Atlantic lowlands of Colombia and northern Venezuela, as well as the Pacific lowlands of Ecuador. The type locality given is "les environs de Turbaco [Department de Bolívar], en Colombie" According to Amaral (1929), likely from Tumaco.

According to the range map provided by Campbell & Lamar (2004), the subspecies P. l. rozei and P. l. lansbergii intergrade in the northern part of the Guajira Peninsula.

Subspecies

Subspecies	Taxon author	Common name	Geographic range
P. l. arcosae	(Schätti & Kramer, 1993)	Manabí hognosed pitviper	Western Ecuador in the Pacific lowlands of Manabí Province.
P. l. hutmanni	(Sandner Montilla, 1989)		Endemic to Isla Margarita, Venezuela.
P. l. lansbergii	(Schlegel, 1841)		Northern Colombia and Panama.
P. l. rozei	J.A. Peters, 1968	Lansberg's gold hognosed pitviper	Venezuela from the Lake Maracaibo region and along the coast as far east as Caripito Monagas. Also enters northeastern Colombia to the southwest of Lake Maracaibo.

Taxonomy

Capmbell & Lamar (2004) consider P. l. arcosae a full species.

See also

• Crotalinae by common name
• Crotalinae by taxonomic synonyms
• Snakebite

Further reading

• Schlegel H. 1841. "Description d'une nouvelle espèce du genre Trigonocéphale (T. Lansbergii) ".
  Magasin de Zoologie 3: 1-3. (Trigonocephalus lansbergii, new species). (in French).

External links

• Porthidium lansbergii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 20 September 2007.

• McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 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).
• Campbell JA, Lamar WW. 2004. The Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere. 2 volumes. Ithaca and London: Comstock Publishing Associates. 870 pp. 1500 plates. ISBN 0-8014-4141-2.
• Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Porthidium lansbergii, p. 151).