Critically Endangered
Bothrops muriciensis
Bothrops muriciensis
Bothrops muriciensis is a viper in the family Viperidae, recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Brazil.
Appearance
Bothrops muriciensis is distinguishable by its 13-14 dark triangular or trapezoidal markings, and lack of markings between them, as well as the mouth and throat colouring being dark black in males and white in females.
Range and habitat
Bothrops muriciensis, also known as Jararaca, Jararaca-de-Alagoas, Jararacuçu in Portuguese, is an endangered species of pit viper that is named after the forest it is known to inhabit, Mata de Murici, in Alagoas in the north east of Brazil.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Bothrops muriciensis reproduces sexually, with ovoviviparous birth.
In crisis
Bothrops muriciensis is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Bothrops muriciensis, Wikidata item Q2911780. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
