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genus Bothrops

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Noun1.genus Bothrops - fer-de-lance
reptile genus - a genus of reptiles
Crotalidae, family Crotalidae - New World vipers: pit vipers
Bothrops atrops, fer-de-lance - large extremely venomous pit viper of Central America and South America


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Snakes of the genus Bothrops are responsible for higher human morbidity in the Americas than any other group of venomous snakes, and Bothrops jararaca is among the most important ones (Campbell and Lamar, 1989).
Frequently, they are mistaken by snakes in the genus Bothrops (La Marca and Soriano 2004, Lotzkat 2007), perhaps due to some similarity in color pattern, the behavior of raising the head and the anterior part of the body, the flattening of the head that enhances the squamose (temporal) bones and give the head a more triangular shape, the vertical elliptic pupil, and the dark band behind each eye.
Juveniles of several species of pit vipers in the genus Bothrops have disruptive camouflaging colours and use tail-luring while foraging for ectothermic prey, mostly frogs (e.
 
 
 
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