Rainforest Hognose Viper
Porthidium nasutum
Common names: hognosed pit viper, hognosed pit viper, rainforest hognosed pit viper, horned hog-nosed viper.
Porthidium nasutum is a pit viper species native to southern Mexico, Central America and northern South America. No subspecies are recognized as being valid.
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Description
Adults of Porthidium nasutum are usually less than 40 centimetres (16 in) in total length (tail included), and rarely more than 60 centimetres (24 in). Females are considerably larger than males. Both sexes are moderately stout.
Range & habitat
Porthidium nasutum is found in southern Mexico southward through Central America to western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador in South America. Inhabits the Atlantic lowlands from Mexico (Tabasco and Chiapas) through Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica to eastern Panama and northwestern Colombia. In the Pacific lowlands, it occurs in southwestern Costa Rica, central and eastern Panama, continuing on to northwestern Ecuador. The type locality given is "Pansos [Panzós], sur les bords du Polochic [Alta Verapaz] (Guatémala)".
Wikipedia: “Geographic distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 31011.