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» Common names: Montane pitvipers.
Cerrophidion is a
genus of
venomous pitvipers that are found in southern
Mexico, southward through the highlands of
Central America to western
Panama.
Description
These snakes grow to a maximum length of 82.2 cm (for
C. godmani), but usually don't exceed more than 50-55 cm. The head scalation is highly variable, with some being enlarged, especially in the
frontal region. The fact that the prelacunal isn't fused with any of the
supralabial scales is characteristic for this genus. The rest of the scalation is as follows: 1-7
intersupraoculars, 7-11
supralabials, 8-12
sublabials, 120-150
ventral scales, 22-36
subcaudal scales (undivided) and 17-21 (rarely 23)
dorsal scales at midbody.
Geographic range
Found in southern
Mexica (in the highlands of
Guerrero and southeastern
Oaxaca), southward though the highlands of
Central America (
Guatemala,
El Salvador,
Honduras, northern
Nicaragua and
Costa Rica) to western
Panama.
Species
T)
Type species.
Taxonomy
One new species has been described:
C. petlalcalensis, López-luna, Vogt & Torre-loranca (1999).
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