Bothrocophias lojanus

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.

Bothrocophias lojanus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Viperidae
Genus: Bothrocophias
Species:
B. lojanus
Binomial name
Bothrocophias lojanus
(Parker, 1930)
Synonyms[2]
  • Bothrops lojana
    Parker, 1930
  • Bothrops alticola
    Parker 1939
  • Bothriopsis alticola
    — Welch, 1994
  • Bothrops lojanus
    — Welch, 1994
  • Bothrocophias lojanus
    — Hamdan et al., 2019

Geographic range

B. lojanus is found in Ecuador and Peru.[1][2][4]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of B. lojanus is forest at altitudes of 1,900–3,678 m (6,234–12,067 ft).[1]

Diet

B. lojanus preys upon lizards and small rodents.[5]

Reproduction

B. lojanus is viviparous.[2]

References
  1. 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.
  2. Species Bothrocophias lojanus at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  3. 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).
  4. "Bothrops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 3 November 2006.
  5. Arteaga A (2020).

Further reading
  • 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)



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