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Fer-de-Lance

Bothrops asper

Description:

One of the most dangerous of the Yucatan Peninsula, also named "Cuatro Nariz"

Habitat:

Tropical Forest

1 Species ID Suggestions

Nauyaca
Bothrops asper Bothrops asper


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3 Comments

bayucca
bayucca 12 years ago

It is also called 3-men-snake: First will disturb it, second will make it furious, third will be bitten... So never walk as #3 ;-)...
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/817...

Jonathan Guyot
Jonathan Guyot 12 years ago

Thank you for the informations. Here we named it the four noses (Quatro narices in Spanish).

bayucca
bayucca 12 years ago

Accepted common name is Fer-de-Lance. You may add the other names like the Nauyaca or Terciopelo as tags. If you look for this snake, yours will probably not be found due to the missing common name.

Jonathan Guyot
Spotted by
Jonathan Guyot

Cancún, Mexico

Spotted on Jul 15, 2010
Submitted on Feb 6, 2012

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