Bothrocophias lojanus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Viperidae |
| Genus: | Bothrocophias |
| Species: | B. lojanus
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| Binomial name | |
| Bothrocophias lojanus (Parker, 1930)
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Bothrocophias lojanus, also known commonly as the Lojan lancehead in English, and macanchi or macaucho in Spanish, is a species of venomous pit viper in the subfamily Crotalinae of the family Viperidae.[3] The species is native to northwestern South America.
Geographic range
[edit]B. lojanus is found in Ecuador and Peru.[1][2][4]
Habitat
[edit]The preferred natural habitat of B. lojanus is forest at altitudes of 1,900–3,678 m (6,234–12,067 ft).[1]
Diet
[edit]B. lojanus preys upon lizards and small rodents.[5]
Reproduction
[edit]B. lojanus is viviparous.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Cisneros-Heredia DF (2019). "Bothrops lojanus ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T174144A54445329. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T174144A54445329.en. Accessed on 18 January 2022.
- ^ a b c Species Bothrocophias lojanus at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ 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).
- ^ "Bothrops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 3 November 2006.
- ^ Arteaga A (2020).
Further reading
[edit]- Carrasco, P. A., Koch, C., Grazziotin, F. G., Venegas, P. J., Chaparro, J. C., Scrocchi, G. J., Salazar-Valenzuela, D., Leynaud, G. C., & Mattoni, C. I. (2023). Total-evidence phylogeny and evolutionary morphology of New World Pitvipers (serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae). Cladistics, 39(2), 71–100. https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12522
- Carrasco PA, Venegas PJ, Valencia JH (2016). "First confirmed records of the endangered Andean pitviper Bothrops lojanus Parker, 1930 (Viperidae: Crotalinae) from Peru". Herpetology Notes 9: 297–301.
- Hamdan B, Guedes TB, Carrasco PA, Melville J (2019). "A complex biogeographic history of diversification in Neotropical lancehead pitvipers (Serpentes, Viperidae)". Zoologica Scripta 49 (2): 145–158. (Bothrocophias lojanus, new combination).
- Parker HW (1930). "Two new Reptiles from Southern Ecuador". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Tenth Series 5: 568–571. (Bothrops lojana, new species, p. 568)
External links
[edit]- Arteaga A (2020). "Lojan Lancehead (Bothrops lojanus)". Reptiles of Ecuador. http://www.reptilesofecuador.com/bothrops_lojanus.html.
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