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Bothrocophias microphthalmus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Viperidae
Genus:	Bothrocophias
Species:	B. microphthalmus
Binomial name
Bothrocophias microphthalmus Cope, 1875
Synonyms
Bothrops microphthalmus Cope, 1875 Lachesis microphthalmus — Boulenger, 1896 Lachesis pleuroxanthus Boulenger, 1912 Porthidium microphthalmum — Schätti & Kramer, 1993 Bothrops microphthalmus — Welch, 1994 Bothrocophias microphthalmus — Gutberlet & Campbell, 2001 Bothrops microphthalmus — Lehr et al., 2002

Bothrocophias microphthalmus, or the small-eyed toad-headed pit viper, is a species of venomous snake in the family Viperidae. The species is endemic to northwestern South America.

Geographic range

B. microphthalmus is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.

The type locality is "between Balsa Puerto and Moyobamba, Peru".

Description and Characteristics

The small eyed toad headed pit viper

References

1. ^ "Bothrocophias microphthalmus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
2. 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).
3. "Bothrocophias ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 3 November 2006.

Further reading

• Cope ED. 1875. "Report on the Reptiles brought by Professor James Orton from the middle and upper Amazon, and Western Peru". J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia (2) 8: 159–183. (Bothrops microphthalmus, new species, pp. 182–183).

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