{{Short description|Species of snake}} {{Speciesbox | image = March's Palm Pit Viper imported from iNaturalist photo 299189276 on 24 October 2023.jpg | status = EN | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name=IUCN>{{cite iucn |author=Wilson, L.D. |author-link=Larry David Wilson |author2=Townsend, J.H. |author2-link=species:Josiah H. Townsend |year=2022 |amends=2014 |title=''Bothriechis marchi '' |volume=2022 |article-number=e.T203659A217781951 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T203659A217781951.en |access-date=17 December 2023}}</ref> | genus = Bothriechis | species = marchi | authority = (Barbour & Loveridge, 1929) | synonyms = *''Bothrops nigroviridis marchi'' <br />{{small|Barbour & Loveridge, 1929}} *''Trimeresurus nigroviridis marchi'' <br />{{small|— Clark & Inger, 1942}} *''Bothrops nigroviridis marchii'' <br />{{small|— J. Peters & Orejas-Miranda, 1970}} *''Bothriechis nigroviridis marchi'' <br />{{small|— Hoge & Romano-Hoge, 1983}} *[''Bothrops nigroviridis''] ''marchi'' <br />{{small|— Wilson & J. Meyer, 1982}} *''Bothriechis aurifer marchi'' <br />{{small|— Burger, 1985}} *''Bothriechis marchi'' <br />{{small|— Campbell & Lamar, 1989}} | synonyms_ref = <ref name=McD99>McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (1999). ''Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1''. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. {{ISBN|1-893777-00-6}} (series). {{ISBN|1-893777-01-4}} (volume).</ref> }}
'''''Bothriechis marchi''''', also known commonly as the ''' Honduran palm pit viper''' and '''March's palm pit viper''', is a species of pit viper, a venomous snake, in the subfamily Crotalinae of the family Viperidae. The species is native to Central America.<ref name=IUCN/><ref name=RDB/><ref name=C&L04>Campbell JA, Lamar WW (2004). ''The Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere''. 2 volumes. Ithaca and London: Comstock Publishing Associates. 870 pp., 1,500 plates. {{ISBN|0-8014-4141-2}}.</ref> There are no subspecies that are recognized as being valid.<ref name=RDB/>
==Etymology== The specific name, ''marchi'', is in honor of herpetologist Douglas H. March, who died from the bite of a fer-de-lance in 1939.<ref>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (''Bothriechis marchi'', p. 168).</ref>
==Description== Adults of ''Bothriechis marchi'' often grow to more than {{convert|80|cm}} in total length (tail included). The largest specimen on record was {{convert|96.8|cm}}. March's palm pit viper is green and relatively slender with a prehensile tail.<ref name=C&L04/>
==Geographic range== ''Bothriechis marchi'' is found on the Atlantic versant of northwestern Honduras.<ref name=IUCN/><ref name=RDB/> Its range might extend into eastern Guatemala. Records from Nicaragua are probably in error.<ref name=IUCN/> It occurs in mesic forest at elevations of {{convert|500|-|1500|m}} altitude. The type locality given is "the Gold Mines at Quimistan [probably El Oro, Municipio de Quimistán, in the Sierra de Espíritu Santo to the northwest of the town of Quimistán], [Departamento de] Santa Barbara, Honduras Republic".<ref name=McD99/>
==Reproduction== ''Bothriechis marchi'' is viviparous.<ref name=RDB/>1
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=RDB>{{NRDB species |genus=Bothriechis |species=marchi |access-date=17 December 2023}}</ref> }}
==Further reading== *Barbour T, Loveridge A (1929). "On some Hondurian and Guatemalan snakes with the description of a new arboreal pit viper of the genus ''Bothrops'' ". ''Bulletin of the Antivenin Institute of America'' '''3''': 1–3. (''Bothrops nigroviridis marchi'', new subspecies). *{{cite journal |last1=Solis |first1=Jose Mario |author1-link=species:José Mario Solís |last2=Brown |first2=Tom |title=Feeding observation on ''Bothriechis marchi'' in Parque Nacional Cusuco, Honduras |journal=Herpetological Bulletin |date=2016 |issue=135 |pages=28–29}} *{{cite journal |last1=Taggart |first1=T.W. |author1-link=species:Travis William Taggart |last2=Crother |first2=B.I. |author2-link=Brian I. Crother |last3=White |first3=M.E. |author3-link=species:Mary E. White |title=Palm-pitviper (''Bothriechis'') phylogeny, mtDNA, and consilience |journal=Cladistics |date=2001 |volume=17 |pages=355-370}} *{{cite journal |last1=Wilson |first1=L.D. |author1-link=Larry David Wilson |last2=McCranie |first2=J.R. |author2-link=species:James Randall McCranie |title=''Bothriechis marchi '' |journal=Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles |date=1992 |volume=544 |pages=1–2}}
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marchi Category:Snakes of Central America Category:Reptiles of Honduras Category:Endemic fauna of Honduras Category:Reptiles described in 1929 Category:Taxa named by Thomas Barbour Category:Taxa named by Arthur Loveridge
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