Crotalus viridis viridis

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Common Names

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Biology

Diet

[Migration]

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Crotalus viridis (Rafinesque, 1818)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: March 27, 2000.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Crotalus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 186 species and subspecies in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

C.abyssus · C.adamanteus (Eastern Diamond-Backed Rattlesnake) · C.adamanteus pleistofloridensis · C.adamanteus ruber · C.adamantus · C.addmanteus · C.admanteus · C.angelensis · C.aquilus · C.atricaudatus · C.atrose · C.atrox (Western Diamond-Backed Rattlesnake) · C.atrox=cinereus · C.atrox atrox (Western Diamond-Backed Rattlesnake) · C.atrox elegans · C.basciliscus · C.basiliscus (Mexican West Coast Rattlesnake) · C.basiliscus basiliscus · C.basiliscus oaxacus · C.biseriatus · C.caliginis · C.cascavella · C.catalinensis (Santa Catalina Island Rattlesnake) · C.cerastes (Gehörnte Klapperschlange) · C.cerastes cerastes (Mojave Desert Sidewinder) · C.cerastes cercobombus (Sonoran Sidewinder) · C.cerastes laterorepens (Colorado Desert Sidewinder) · C.cerberus · C.cinereous · C.concolor · C.confluentus · C.confluentus abyssus · C.confluentus kellyi · C.confluentus lutosus · C.confluentus nuntius · C.confluentus stephensi · C.culminatus · C.cumanensis · C.duriscus · C.durissus (Aruba Island Rattlesnake) · C.durissus cascavella (Aruba Island Rattlesnake) · C.durissus collilineatus (Aruba Island Rattlesnake) · C.durissus culminatus (Aruba Island Rattlesnake) · C.durissus cumanensis (Aruba Island Rattlesnake) · C.durissus dryinas · C.durissus dryinus · C.durissus durissus (Aruba Island Rattlesnake) · C.durissus marajoensis (Aruba Island Rattlesnake) · C.durissus ruruima (Aruba Island Rattlesnake) · C.durissus terrificus (South American Rattlesnake) · C.durissus totonacus (Aruba Island Rattlesnake) · C.durissus trigonicus (Aruba Island Rattlesnake) · C.durissus tzabcan (Aruba Island Rattlesnake) · C.enyo (Lower California Rattlesnake) · C.enyo cerralvensis · C.enyo enyo (Lower California Rattlesnake) · C.enyo furvus · C.ericsmithi (Guerreran Long-Tailed Rattlesnake) · C.estebanensis · C.exsul · C.gloydi lautus · C.goldmani · C.guttata · C.helleri · C.horridus (Timber Rattlesnake (Atricaudatus)) · C.horridus atricaudatus · C.horridus horridus (Timber Rattlesnake (Atricaudatus)) · C.hortulanus · C.intermedius (Mexican Smallhead Rattlesnake) · C.intermedius gloydi · C.intermedius intermedius (Mexican Smallhead Rattlesnake) · C.intermedius omiltemanus · C.lannomi (Autlán Long-Tailed Rattlesnake) · C.lecontei · C.lepidus (Rock Rattlesnake) · C.lepidus klauberi (Banded Rock Rattlesnake) · C.lepidus lepidus (Mottled Rock Rattlesnake) · C.lepidus maculosus (Rock Rattlesnake) · C.lepidus morulus (Rock Rattlesnake) · C.lepidus semicornutus · C.lorenzoensis · C.lucasensis · C.lucifer · C.mitchelli · C.mitchellii (Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnake) · C.mitchellii angelensis (Speckled Rattlesnake) · C.mitchellii mitchellii (Speckled Rattlesnake) · C.mitchellii muertensis (Speckled Rattlesnake) · C.mitchellii pyrrhus (Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnake) · C.mitchellii stephensi (Panamint Rattlesnake) · C.mitchelli angelensis · C.mitchelli mitchelli · C.mitchelli muertensis · C.mitchelli pyrrhus (Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnake) · C.molassus · C.molossus (Black-Tailed Rattlesnake) · C.molossus estebanensis (Black-Tailed Rattlesnake) · C.molossus molossus (Black-Tailed Rattlesnake) · C.molossus nigrescens (Black-Tailed Rattlesnake) · C.molossus nigriscens

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Further Reading

• Amphibians and reptiles of Northern Coahuila, Mexico, by Karl P. Schmidt and David W. Owens. [Chicago, 1944] ENG url p. 114.
• Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. ENG url p. 126, p. 158, p. 161.
• Ashton et al. (2001) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 21(2):176-189.
• Asiatic herpetological research. Berkeley, Calif.: Asiatic Herpetological Research Society: c1990- ENG url p. 110.
• Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes 2003. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada.
• Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner 1987. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, D.C., USA. 79.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. ENG url p. 171, p. 197, p. 205, p. 214.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, ENG url p. 189.
• Campbell et al. (2004) Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere. Comstock, 962 pp.
• Conant and Collins (1991) Field Guide Rept. Amph. E/C North America, 3rd ed.
• Development and growth of the rattle of rattlesnakes [by] Arnold A. Zimmermann and Clifford H. Pope. [Chicago]1948. ENG url p. 361, p. 384, p. 413.
• Flores-Villela, Oscar / McCoy, C. J., ed. 1993. Herpetofauna Mexicana: Lista anotada de las especies de anfibios y reptiles de M and amp;eacute;xico, cambios taxon and amp;oacute;micos recientes, y nuevas especies. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication, no. 17. Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. iv + 73. ISBN: 0-911239-42-1.
• Klauber (1938) Copeia 1938 (4): 191-197
• McDiarmid et al. (1999) Snake species of the world, v.1.
• McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Tour and eacute;1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. The Herpetologists' League. Washington, D.C., USA. xi + 511. ISBN: 1-893777-01-4.
• Miscellaneous publication - University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History. Lawrence, University of Kansas, 1946-1996. ENG url p. 319.
• Name that animal; a guide to the identification of the common land and fresh-water animals of the United States, with special reference to the area east of the Rockies. With drawings by Olive Driver. [Northampton? Mass., 1950] ENG url p. 395.
• Occasional papers - San Diego Society of Natural History. San Diego, The Society. ENG url p. 21, p. 3, p. 9.
• Patterns of snake evolution suggested by their proteins: a contribution in celebration of the distinguished scholarship of Robert F. Inger on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday / Herbert C. Dessauer, John E. Cadle, Robin Lawson. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1987. ENG url p. 32.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] ENG url p. 312, p. 320.
• Rafinesque (1818) American Month. Mag. Crit. Rev. 4 (1): 41
• Stebbins (1985) Field Guide Western Rept. and Amph., 2nd ed.
• Stebbins, Robert C. 1985. A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, Second Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company. Boston, Mass. 336.
• The Great Basin naturalist. Provo, Utah, M.L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University. ENG url p. 49, p. 560, p. 665, p. 97.
• The University of Kansas science bulletin. [Lawrence]: University of Kansas, 1902-1996. ENG url p. 358, p. 370.
• Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. [San Diego]: The Society, 1905- ENG url p. 191, p. 208, p. 241, p. 262.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed April 18, 2007.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 14, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• NatureServe. 2003. Downloadable animal data sets. NatureServe Central Databases. Accessed February 6, 2005.
• Uetz, Peter. The Reptile Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2538301
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-8074
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13515885
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 209549
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ARADE02128
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 17831

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