Bothrocophias lojanus, also known commonly as the Lojan lancehead in English, and macanchi or macaucho in Spanish, is a species of venomous pit viper in the subfamily Crotalinae of the family Viperidae.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. (series). (volume). The species is native to northwestern South America.
Geographic range B. lojanus is found in Ecuador and Peru.
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of B. lojanus is forest at altitudes of .
Diet B. lojanus preys upon lizards and small rodents.Arteaga A (2020).
Reproduction B. lojanus is viviparous.
References
Further reading Carrasco, P. A., Koch, C., Grazziotin, F. G., Venegas, P. J., Chaparro, J. C., Scrocchi, G. J., Salazar-Valenzuela, D., Leynaud, G. C., & Mattoni, C. I. (2023). Total-evidence phylogeny and evolutionary morphology of New World Pitvipers (serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae). Cladistics, 39(2), 71–100. https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12522 Carrasco PA, Venegas PJ, Valencia JH (2016). "First confirmed records of the endangered Andean pitviper Bothrops lojanus Parker, 1930 (Viperidae: Crotalinae) from Peru". Herpetology Notes 9: 297–301. Hamdan B, Guedes TB, Carrasco PA, Melville J (2019). "A complex biogeographic history of diversification in Neotropical lancehead pitvipers (Serpentes, Viperidae)". Zoologica Scripta 49 (2): 145–158. (Bothrocophias lojanus, new combination). Parker HW (1930). "Two new Reptiles from Southern Ecuador". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Tenth Series 5: 568–571. (Bothrops lojana, new species, p. 568)
External links Arteaga A (2020). "Lojan Lancehead (Bothrops lojanus)". Reptiles of Ecuador. http://www.reptilesofecuador.com/bothrops_lojanus.html.