Lachesis melanocephala

Taxobox
name = "Lachesis melanocephala"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Serpentes
familia = Viperidae
subfamilia = Crotalinae
genus = "Lachesis"
species = "L. melanocephala"
binomial = "Lachesis melanocephala"
binomial_authority = Solórzano & Cerdas, 1986
synonyms = * "Lachesis muta melanocephala" - Solórzano & Cerdas, 1986
* "Lachesis melanocephala" - Zamudio & Greene, 1997McDiarmid 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).]

:"Common names: black-headed bushmaster.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.] ""Lachesis melanocephala" is a venomous pitviper species found in Costa Rica. No subspecies are currently recognized.ITIS|ID=634896|taxon="Lachesis melanocephala"|year=2008|date=5 August]

Description

Adults frequently grow to 190-200 cm in length with the largest reported specimens being 230 cm (Solórzano, 2004) and 240 cm (Ripa, 2001). The top of the head is uniform black in color.

Geographic range

Found in Costa Rica on the Pacific versant of southeastern Puntarenas province from near sea level to about 1500 m. The type locality given is "tropical rainforest 9 km northern of Ciudad Neily in southeastern Provincia de Puntarenas, Costa Rica."

Campbell and Lamar (2004) describe its range as southwestern Costa Rica and possibly extreme western Panama, but state that almost all locality records are from Puntarenas province.

ee also

* List of crotaline species and subspecies
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* Snakebite

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