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)

Synonyms: txid8721, Fer-de-Lance, Bothrops, Bothrops jararaca, Fer-de-Lances, Jararaca, Fer de Lance, txid8724, txid8725