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Bothriechis guifarroi (March's Palm Pit Viper; March's palm-pitviper)

Wikipedia Abstract

Bothriechis guifarroi is a species of venomous green palm pitviper discovered in 2010 in the Texiguat Wildlife Refuge, in Northern Honduras. Bothriechis guifarroi joins two other species of the genus Bothriechis, B. marchi and B. thalassinus, found in Chortís Highlands of Honduras. Its color pattern and scalation is similar to other Honduran palm pitvipers, but genetic analysis reveals it to be more closely related to the B. lateralis and B. nigroviridis species more than 600 km to the southeast, in the mountains of Costa Rica and Panama.
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Attributes

Venomous [1]  Yes

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Cusuco National Park II 44047 Honduras  
Merendón   Honduras      
Texiguat Wildlife Refuge IV 39364 Honduras  

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1Venomous snakes and antivenoms search interface, World Health Organization
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0