We provide two new records of Bothropoides diporus for Neuquén province, northern Patagonia, Argentina. Both records are the second and third for this species in this province. One of these records, from the northern slope of Auca Mahuida Mountain, extends approximately 120 km to the north the present known geographic distribution of this species in Neuquén province.Fil: Minoli, Ignacio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Nacional Patagónico; ArgentinaFil: Janis Alvarez, Diego. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; BrasilFil: Avila, Luciano Javier. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Nacional Patagónico; Argentin

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Journal of species lists and distributionChec List608Notes oN GeoGraphic DistributioNISSN 1809-127X (online edition)© 2011 Check List and AuthorsOpen Access | Freely available at www.checklist.org.brAbstract: We provide two new records of Bothropoides diporus for Neuquén province, northern Patagonia, Argentina. Both records are the second and third for this species in this province. One of these records, from the northern slope of Auca Mahuida Mountain, extends approximately 120 km to the north the present known geographic distribution of this species in Neuquén province.1	 Centro	Nacional	Patagónico,	Consejo	Nacional	de	Investigaciones	Científicas	y	Técnicas	(CENPAT-CONICET).	Boulevard	Almirante	Brown	2915.			 U9120ACD.	Puerto	Madryn,	Chubut,	Argentina.	2	 Universidade	Federal	do	Rio	Grande	do	Sul,	Instituto	de	Biociências,	Departamento	de	Zoologia,	Laboratório	de	Herpetologia.	Avenida	Bento			 Gonçalves	9500,	Agronomia.	CEP	91501-970.	Porto	Alegre,	RS,	Brazil.*	 Corresponding	author.	E-mail: minoli@cenpat.edu.arIgnacio Minoli 1*,	Diego	Janis	Álvares 2	and	Luciano	Javier	Avila 1New records and geographic distribution map of Bothropoides diporus	Cope,	1862	(Reptilia:	Viperidae)Check List | Volume 7 | Issue 5 | 2011Bothropoides diporus	 (Cope,	1862)	 is	a	medium-sized	viperid	snake	(maximum	SVL	=	700	mm;	Cei	1986)	widely	distributed	 from	 south-western	Brazil	 through	Paraguay	to	central	Argentina	(Giraudo	and	Scrocchi	2002;	Fenwick	et al.	2009).	In Argentina it has been cited from Catamarca, Córdoba,	Corrientes,	Chaco,	Formosa,	Jujuy,	La	Pampa,	La	Rioja,	Mendoza,	Misiones,	Neuquén,	Río	Negro,	Salta,	San	Luis,	Santa	Fe,	Santiago	del	Estero	and	Tucumán	provinces	(Cei	 1986,	 1993;	 Pérez	 and	 Avila	 2000;	 Giraudo	 and	Scrocchi	2002;	Perez	et al.	2003;	da	Silva	and	Rodrigues	2008).	 This	 species	 is	 found	 in	 a	 variety	 of	 habitats	including	 Chaco,	 wet	 palm-grasslands,	 semitropical	Figure 1.	(1)	record	for	La	Pampa	province	from	Tiranti	and	Avila	(1997),	(2)	first	record	in	Rio	Negro	province	from	Perez	and	Avila	(2000),	(3)	first	 record	 for	Bothropoides diporus	 in	 Neuquén	 province	 from	 Pérez	et al. (2003).	New	records	of	B. diporus:	 (4)	21.2	km	NW	Añelo,	Añelo	Department	 (LJAMM-CNP	14344)	 and	 (5)	3.9	 km	S	 of	 Provincial	Road	6,	Pehuenches	Department	 (LJAMM-CNP	14279).	Main	 roads,	province	boundaries, and main human population centers are shown.deciduous	forest,	Araucaria	forest,	Monte	and	Pampas.	The	southernmost	records	of	this	species	are	from	La	Pampa,	Neuquén	and	Río	Negro	provinces	(Tiranti	and	Avila	1997;	Pérez	and	Avila	2000;	Pérez	et al.	2003),	with	an	apparent	southern	limit	close	to	parallel	39°	south.	Here	we	present	two new records of B. diporus from northeastern Neuquén province.	On	March	5th	2011,	we	spotted	and	collected	a	dead	 animal	 on	 the	Provincial	Road	7	 (Figure	1,	 locality	4),	 21.2	 km	 NW	 Añelo	 (38°13’32.3”	 S,	 68°59’00.3”	 W;	260	m	 elevation),	 Añelo	 Department.	 The	 snake	 was	 in	very bad condition on the paved road but we were able to identify	the	typical	coloration	of	this	species.	Habitat	of	the	collected	site	was	a	 field	of	 sand	dunes,	with	Sporobolus grass and some brushy areas where the dominant plant is salt	bush	(Atriplex	spp).	The	second	specimen	(Figures	1	and	2,	locality	5)	was	spotted,	photographed	and	collected	(permit	number	0154/10)	while	trying	to	hide	in	a	small	burrow,	in	the	base	of	a	creosote	bush	(Larrea divaricata),	on	the	edge	of	a	temporary	stream	flowing	along	a	sandy	area	 in	 the	 northern	 slope	 of	 Auca	 Mahuida	 Volcano,	around	 3.9	 km	 S	 of	 Provincial	 Road	 6	 (37°30’50.3”	 S,	68°49’03.9”	W;	755	m	elevation),	Pehuenches	Department. Figure 2. Bothropoides diporus	 from	 3.9	 km	 S	 of	 Provincial	 Road	 6,	Pehuenches	 Department,	 Neuquén	 province,	 Argentina	 (LJAMM-CNP	14279).609Minoli et al. | New records of Bothropoides diporus for Neuquén, ArgentinaCheck List | Volume 7 | Issue 5 | 2011This	 locality	 is	 situated	 120	 km	 (airline)	 north	 of	 the	first	 citation	 of	 the	 species	 for	 this	 province	 (Pérez	 et al.	 2003),	 and	 165	 km	 SW	 of	 the	 southernmost	 locality	cited	in	Puelén	Department,	La	Pampa	province.	Voucher	specimens are deposited in the herpetological collection of	Centro	Nacional	Patagónico	(CENPAT-CONICET)	under	numbers	LJAMM-CNP	14344	(locality	4)	and	LJAMM-CNP	14279	(locality	5).Acknowledgments:	We	thank	YPF	S.A.,	ANPCYT-FONCYT	and	CONICET	for	 funding	 contribution,	 the	 Dirección	 Provincial	 de	 Áreas	 Naturales	Protegidas	 from	Neuquén	province	 for	collecting	permits,	 Jack	W.	Sites	Jr.	 for	 reviewing	 this	manuscript,	Daniel	R.	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New records and geographic distribution map of Bothropoides diporus Cope, 1862 (Reptilia: Viperidae)

We provide two new records of Bothropoides diporus for Neuquén province, northern Patagonia, Argentina. Both records are the second and third for this species in this province. One of these records, from the northern slope of Auca Mahuida Mountain, extends approximately 120 km to the north the present known geographic distribution of this species in Neuquén province.</jats:p

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