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Common names: side-striped palm pitviper [3] side-striped palm viper, [4] more. Bothriechis lateralis is a pit viper species found in the mountains of Costa Rica and western Panama. [2] No subspecies are currently recognized. [5]
The eyelash viper is not known to be an aggressive snake towards humans, and is likely to be avoidant of creatures larger than itself, but will not hesitate to strike if repeatedly harassed. Certain local mythologies and folktales (notably in remote areas of northern South America) describe how after one is bitten by an eyelash viper, the snake ...
It is considered the most dangerous snake in Costa Rica, responsible for 46% of all bites and 30% of all hospitalized cases; before 1947, the fatality rate was 9%, but this has since declined to almost 0% (Bolaños, 1984), mostly due to the Clodomiro Picado Research Institute, [30] responsible for the production of snake antiophidic sera (which ...
Bothriechis nigroviridis is a pit viper species found in the mountains of Costa Rica and Panama. [1] [3] No subspecies are currently recognized. [3] The specific name is derived from the Latin niger (black) and viridis (green) in reference to its distinctive color pattern.
If untreated it can lead to loss of a limb, or even death. Each year several farmers and plantation workers are bitten by eyelash vipers, sometimes resulting in fatalities. Wyeth in the United States and Instituto Clodomiro Picado in Costa Rica both manufacture different polyvalent antivenins which can be used to treat eyelash viper envenomations.
The snake is a small-medium size, slender snake. It lives in trees and has a green-black coloration. The snake grows up to 30 inches, but many grow less than 24 inches. [5] It is only discovered in Costa Rica. The snake kills with a toxin which is likely to be nigroviriditoxin. The toxin itself was discovered in 2015, and B. nubestris would be ...
Metlapilcoatlus is a genus of pit vipers endemic to Mexico ... when grinding corn—alluding to the snake's ... Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Panama. ...
Bothrops is a genus of highly venomous pit vipers endemic to the Neotropics. [1] The generic name, Bothrops, is derived from the Greek words βόθρος, bothros, meaning ' pit ', and ὄψ, ops, meaning ' eye ' or ' face ', together an allusion to the heat-sensitive loreal pit organs.