Bothrocophias lojanus
Geographic range
B. lojanus is found in Ecuador and Peru.
Habitat
The preferred natural habitat of B. lojanus is forest at altitudes of 1,900–3,678 m (6,234–12,067 ft).
Further reading
- Carrasco, P. A., Koch, C., Grazziotin, F. G., Venegas, P. J., Chaparro, J. C., Scrocchi, G. J., Salazar-Valenzuela, D., Leynaud, G. C., & Mattoni, C. I. (2023). Total-evidence phylogeny and evolutionary morphology of New World Pitvipers (serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae). Cladistics, 39(2), 71–100. https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12522
- 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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