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Bothrocophias campbelli (Campbell´s toadheaded pitviper, víbora boca de sapo de Campbell). Diet/ophiophagy Article in Herpetological Review · September 2013 CITATION
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Rojas-Rivera, A., Castillo, K. & Gutiérrez-Cárdenas, P.D.A. 2013. Bothrocophias campbelli (Campbell´s toad-headed pitviper, víbora boca de sapo de Campbell). Diet/ophiophagy. Herpetol. Rev. 44: 518
first. The specimens are housed on Colección Zoológica Universidad de Nariño (PSO-CZ), Pasto, Nariño, Colombia. We thank H. García for assistance in the field, Fundación FELCA and their members M. F. Pai and C. F. Pai for permits and logistic help in the RNRÑ, and J. P. Hurtado for help with prey identification. PDAGC received Ph.D. funding from CAPES (bolsista da CAPES/CNPq – IEL Nacional - Brasil). ALEJANDRA ROJAS-RIVERA, Grupo de Ecología y Diversidad de Anfibios y Reptiles, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Caldas, Calle 65 #26-10, A.A. 275, Manizales, Colombia (e-mail:
[email protected]); KAREN CASTILLO, Programa de Biología, Universidad de Nariño, Ciudad Universitaria Torobajo Calle 18 Carrera 50, San Juan de Pasto, Nariño, Colômbia (e-mail:
[email protected]); and PAUL DAVID ALFONSO GUTIÉRREZ-CÁRDENAS (e-mail: pdgutierrez2@yahoo. com), Grupo de Ecología y Diversidad de Anfibios y Reptiles, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Caldas, Calle 65 #26-10, A.A. 275, Manizales, Colombia and Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução, Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rua São Francisco Xavier 524, Maracanã, CEP 20550-013, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
BOTHROCOPHIAS CAMPBELLI (Campbell’s Toad-headed Pitviper, Víbora Boca de Sapo de Campbell). DIET/OPHIOPHAGY. The only documented prey item of Bothrocophias campbelli is a partly digested rat-sized rodent reported from Ecuador (Freire and Kuch 2000. Herpetol. Rev. 31:45). On 19 July 2012, ARR and KC collected a juvenile female B. campbelli (PSO-CZ 436; total length = 505 mm; SVL = 440 mm) on a tourist trail at Reserva Natural Río Ñambí (RNRÑ), municipality of Barbacoas, department of Nariño, Colombia (01.28592°N, 78.07433°W, datum WGS84; elev. 1431 m) that contained an adult male Urotheca lateristriga (Stained Lips Snake; PSO-CZ 437; total length = 430 mm; SVL = 300 mm; Fig. 1) in its stomach. The prey had been ingested tail
Fig. 1. Juvenile Bothrocophias campbelli with stomach contents, an adult Urotheca lateristriga.
Herpetological Review 44(3), 2013
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