Common lancehead, fer-de-lance, barba amarilla or mapepire balsain, highly venomous pit viper, Bothrops atrox. La vipere fer de lance, Cophias lanceolatus, Coluber lanceolatus. Handcoloured steel engraving by Alexandre Manceau after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Bernard Germain de Lacepede’s Histoire Naturelle de Lacepede, comprenant les cetaces, les quadrupedes ovipares, les serpents et les poissons, Furne et Cie, Paris, 1847.

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