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.[3] The species is endemic to South America.[4]
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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: | Bothrops |
| Species: | B. jonathani
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| Binomial name | |
| Bothrops jonathani Harvey, 1994
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Etymology
editThe specific name, jonathani, is in honor of American herpetologist Jonathan A. Campbell.[2][5]
Geographic range
editB. jonathani is found in Cochabamba Department of southern Bolivia and in adjacent northwestern Argentina.[2]
Habitat
editThe 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).[1][6]
Behavior
editB. jonathani is terrestrial. It basks on rocks, or shelters under them.[1]
Diet
editB. jonathani preys predominately upon mice, but also eats other small vertebrates.[1]
Reproduction
editB. jonathani is ovoviviparous.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b c d 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.
- ^ a b c d Species Bothrops jonathani 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.
- ^ 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).
- ^ 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
edit- 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 [= The lance vipers of the genus Bothrops in Bolivia]". Draco 8 (33): 50–56. (in German).
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