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 Bothriechis marchi

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PostSubject: Bothriechis marchi   Bothriechis marchi Icon_minitimeSat 28 Mar - 3:43
Here's some pics of a few of the B. marchi we found in Honduras last summer.

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PostSubject: Re: Bothriechis marchi   Bothriechis marchi Icon_minitimeSat 28 Mar - 5:59
Wonderfull species
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PostSubject: Re: Bothriechis marchi   Bothriechis marchi Icon_minitimeSat 28 Mar - 8:57
this is my south american dream-species Rob...
just look at them, what a beauty... can you give us any information about their biology Rob?


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PostSubject: Re: Bothriechis marchi   Bothriechis marchi Icon_minitimeSat 28 Mar - 9:30
We always found them in the cloud forest always when it was raining or after a heavy downpour and usually close to a water source..Their diet seems to vary from the pocket and deer mice species to the large endemic Plectrohyla exquisita and other frog species.

They are very rarely found close to the ground during the day apart from when they are waiting in ambush after a heavy nights rain or after they have fed. And even then they are never on the ground they are always perched on a bush/branch/rock/palm frond etc..

It's thought that they all migrate into the upper canopy during the day to thermoregulate in the sun (it's normally very dark, damp and can be cold under the dense cloud forest canopy) which makes sense. But we will have a high ropes system set up this year so hopefully we will find this out for certain and get some temperature readings.

They are not a common species like Cerrophidion but like I say hopefully this year we will be able to get some good data.
There'a also the possibility that B. thalassinus is also within the park and since it is very similar to B. marchi we may have overlooked their presence before esp. with the juveiles. We also found B. schlegelii in the west of the park (well that's they only place they have been found so far).

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PostSubject: B. marchi   Bothriechis marchi Icon_minitimeSat 28 Mar - 15:25
Hello Rob, a very nice snake and pictures. Would look great in my collection.
I cant wait to see some pictures of the mentioned B. thalassinus.
This is my absolut favorite, beside Bothriopsis bilineata smaragdina.
Greetings Rene
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PostSubject: Re: Bothriechis marchi   Bothriechis marchi Icon_minitimeSat 28 Mar - 20:30
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I cant wait to see some pictures of the mentioned B. thalassinus

I can't wait to take some if we find them! Surprised

They are present within the Merendon Range so it's highly possible that they have just been over looked or have been misidentified as B. marchi so far..not everyone enjoys getting up close and personal with these guys (esp. the local guides. They really fear the 'Tamaga Verde'). Hopefully we'll get them this year.
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PostSubject: Re: Bothriechis marchi   Bothriechis marchi Icon_minitimeTue 31 Mar - 0:35
Nice photos. Bothriechis is probably my favorite snake species. I have B. lateralis and B. schlegelii in my collection now.
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PostSubject: Re: Bothriechis marchi   Bothriechis marchi Icon_minitimeSat 4 Apr - 4:28
Lateralis are very nice (nice avatar pic! Smile )...although the 'moss' and lichen phases of schlegel's have a special place in my heart Smile
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PostSubject: Re: Bothriechis marchi   Bothriechis marchi Icon_minitimeMon 15 Jul - 22:55
This snake here is most likely Guifarro's Palm-pitviper, Bothriechis guifarroi as seems to be Plate 384. identified as Bothriechis marchi, in The Venomous Reptiles of The Western Hemisphere, Volume 1, Jonathan A. Campbell and William W. Lamar.

Bothriechis guifarro taxonomically, is closer to Bothriechis lateralis or even it's relict sister specie .

Prof. Micheal Burger's pers comm. " i lump most green arboreal New World Montane Palm Pit Vipers with in the Lateralis clade ".

At first i was schocked ! by his taxonomic prediction ? but as time goes on it's making sense.
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