| a relict lineage and new species of green palm-pitviper (squamata, viperidae, bothriechis) from the chortís highlands of mesoamerica. | a new species of palm-pitviper of the genus bothriechis is described from refugio de vida silvestre texíguat in northern honduras. the new species differs from congeners by having 19 dorsal scale rows at midbody, a bright green dorsal coloration in adults, the prelacunal scale fused to the second supralabial, and in representing a northern lineage that is sister to bothriechis lateralis, which is distributed in costa rica and western panama and is isolated from the new taxon by the nicaraguan de ... | 2013 | 23794885 |