A new insular species of pitviper from Brazil, with comments on evolutionary biology and conservation of the Bothrops jararaca group (Serpentes, Viperidae)

Herpetologica

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 303-312

  Marques, Otavio A V ^a   Martins, Marcio ^a   Sazima, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bothrops alcatraz; Crotalinae; Evolution; Island endemics; Natural history; Southeastern Brazil

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; SNAKE;

ALCATRAZES ISLAND; BRAZIL; SAO PAULO STATE;

AMPHIBIA; BOTHROPS; BOTHROPS ALCATRAZ; BOTHROPS INSULARIS; BOTHROPS JARARACA; CHILOPODA; CROTALINAE; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 0036342060     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1655/0018-0831(2002)058[0303:ANISOP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Reproductive strategies in tropical pitvipers, genus Bothrops (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae)
2. Contribuição para o conhecimento dos ophidios do Brasil. Parte I. Quatro novas espécies de serpentes brasileiras
3. Contribuição para o conhecimento dos ophidios do Brasil. A. Parte II. Biologia da nova espécie
4. Relationships of venom ontogeny and diet in Bothrops
5. Is the venom related to diet and tail color during Bothrops moojeni ontogeny?
6. Phylogenetic relationships among vipers: Immunological evidence
7. A new species of highland pitviper of the genus Bothrops from southern Mexico
8. The reptiles: Ecology
9. Effect of Bothrops insularis venom on the mouse and chick nerve-muscle preparation
10. A guide to the snake hemipenis: A survey of basic structure and systematic characteristics
11. A biological survey of the pitviper Bothrops insularis Amaral (Serpentes, Viperidae): An endemic and threatened offshore island snake of southeastern Brazil
12. Adaptative variation in head size in Vipera bents L. populations
13. Comparative study of nine Bothrops snake venoms from adult female snakes and their offspring
14. The ecological and behavioral context of pitviper evolution
15. Geographic variation in food habits, body size and life history traits of the snakes on the Izu islands
16. Sexual abnormalities in Bothrops insularis (Amaral, 1921)
17. Sinopse das serpentes peçonhentas do Brasil
18. Ovarian cycle of the Bothrops jararaca
19. Reptiles in seabird colony: Herpetofauna of Nakanokamishima Island of the Yaeyama group, Ryukyu archipelago
20. The cardiovascular adaptations of viperid snakes
21. A Ilha de Alcatrazes
22. Diet and feeding behavior of the coral snake, Micrurus corallinus, from the Atlantic forest in Brazil
23. Fundamentos e reconstrução de antigos níveis marinhos do Quartenário
24. Ecological and phylogenetic correlates of feeding habits in Neotropical pitvipers of the genus Bothrops
25. Resource use and the survival of land and freshwater vertebrates on oceanic islands
26. Preliminary observation on Trimeresurus okinavensis in the field
27. Molecular systematics and biogeographical history of pitvipers as determined by mitochondrial ribosomal DNA sequences
28. Catalogue of neotropical squamata. Part I. Snakes
29. Os lagartos da floresta Atlântica distribuição atual e pretérita e suas implicações para estudos futuros
30. DNA evolution of South American pit vipers of the genus Bothrops
31. MtDNA phylogeny of Neotropical pitvipers of the genus Bothrops (Squamata: Serpentes: Viperidae)
32. Feeding behavior of the snail-eating snake, Dipsas indica
33. Natural history of the jararaca pitviper, Bothrops jararaca, in southeastern Brazil
34. Siphlophis pulcher. Prey
35. Population structure of black tiger snakes, Notechis ater niger, on offshore islands of south Australia
36. Allometric patterns in the ecology of Australian snakes
37. Distribution and differentiation of animals along the coast and in continental islands of the state of S. Paulo, Brasil. I. Introduction to the area and problems
38. What can mitochrondrial gene sequences tell us about intergeneric relationships of pitvipers?
39. Phylogenetic relationships of Central and South American pitvipers of the genus Bothrops (sensu lato): Cladistic analyses of biochemical and anatomical characters
40. The cottonmouth moccasin on Sea Horse Key, Florida
41. Genitalstrukturen und paarungsbiologie bei squamaten reptilien, speziell den platynota, mit bemerkungen zur systematik