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Bothrops
Bothrops jararaca | Fer-de-Lance | Jararaca | Fer de Lance | Fer-de-Lances
A genus of poisonous snakes of the VIPERIDAE family. About 50 species are known and all are found in tropical America and southern South America. Bothrops atrox is the fer-de-lance and B. jararaca is the jararaca. (Goin, Goin, and Zug, Introduction to Herpetology, 3d ed, p336) |
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