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Descriptor English: Bothrops
Descriptor Spanish: Bothrops
Descriptor Bothrops
Entry term(s) Bothrops jararaca
mapanare
Scope note: Género de serpientes venenosas de la familia VIPERIDAE. Se conocen aproximadamente 50 especies y todas se encuentran en las regiones tropicales de América y del sur de Sudamérica. Bothrops atrox es el mapanare y B. jararaca es la jararaca. (Goin, Goin and Zug, Introduction to Herpetology, 3d ed, p336)
Descriptor Portuguese: Bothrops
Descriptor French: Bothrops
Entry term(s): Bothrops jararaca
Fer de Lance
Fer-de-Lance
Fer-de-Lances
Jararaca
Tree number(s): B01.050.150.900.833.672.125.937.240.375
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D017837
Scope note: A genus of poisonous snakes of the VIPERIDAE family. About 50 species are known and all are found in tropical America and southern South America. Bothrops atrox is the fer-de-lance and B. jararaca is the jararaca. (Goin, Goin, and Zug, Introduction to Herpetology, 3d ed, p336)
Annotation: venom: coordinate with CROTALID VENOMS
Allowable Qualifiers: AB abnormalities
AH anatomy & histology
BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CL classification
EM embryology
GD growth & development
GE genetics
IM immunology
IN injuries
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
PH physiology
PS parasitology
SU surgery
UR urine
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Snakes (1966-1993)
Public MeSH Note: 94
History Note: 94
DeCS ID: 31610
Unique ID: D017837
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1994/01/01
Date of Entry: 1993/02/16
Revision Date: 2017/07/11
Bothrops - Preferred
Concept UI M0026954
Scope note A genus of poisonous snakes of the VIPERIDAE family. About 50 species are known and all are found in tropical America and southern South America. Bothrops atrox is the fer-de-lance and B. jararaca is the jararaca. (Goin, Goin, and Zug, Introduction to Herpetology, 3d ed, p336)
Preferred term Bothrops
Bothrops jararaca - Narrower
Concept UI M0026952
Preferred term Bothrops jararaca
Entry term(s) Jararaca
Fer-de-Lance - Narrower
Concept UI M0026953
Preferred term Fer-de-Lance
Entry term(s) Fer de Lance
Fer-de-Lances



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