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Hog-nosed Viper

Porthidium nasutus

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Field Notes

Description:

Small viper, mostly from the caribean rainforest in, it is terrestrial but a couple times I have seen it in branches and into the foliage close to the forest floor, it is very dosil but also poisonous.

Habitat:

Rainforest

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
Jonathan Sequeira
Notice the variation of colors in the same species. http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/13056055

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