Crotalus durissus

Crotalus durissus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Viperoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Viperoidea

Familia: Viperidae
Subfamilia: Crotalinae
Genus: Crotalus
Species: Crotalus durissus
Subspecies (6): C. d. durissus – C. d. cumanensis – C. d. marajoensis – C. d. ruruima – C. d. terrificus – C. d. trigonicus

Name

Crotalus durissus Linnaeus, 1758: 214

• Type material: unknown.
• Type locality: “America”.

Synonyms

• Crotalus dryinas Linnaeus, 1758: 214
  • Type locality: “America”.

References

Primary references

• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• McDiarmid, R.W., Campbell, J.A. & Touré, T.A. 1999. Snake Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Volume 1. Herpetologists’ League. 511 pp. ISBN 9781893777002 Reference page. 
• Campbell, J.A. & Lamar, W.W. 2004. The Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere. 2 Volumes. Cornell University Press: Ithaca, New York. 1032 pp. ISBN 9780801441417 Reference page. 
• Savage, J.M., Campbell, J.A. & Lamar, W.W. 2005. On the names for Neotropical Rattlesnakes (Reptilia, Serpentes, Viperidae, Crotalus). Herpetological Review 36(4): 369–371. Reference page. 
• Wüster, W., Ferguson, J.E., Quijada-Mascareñas, J.A., Pook, C.E., Salomão, M.G. & Thorpe, R.S. 2005. Tracing an invasion: landbridges, refugia, and the phylogeography of the Neotropical rattlesnake (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalus durissus). Molecular Ecology 14(4): 1095–1108. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02471.x Reference page. 
• Wallach, V., Williams, K.L. & Boundy, J. 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group: Boca Raton, Florida. 1237 pp. ISBN 9781138034006 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Crotalus durissus. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 8 June 2022.
• Cacciali, P., Caicedo, J.R., Carreira, S., Fitzgerald, L., Gutiérrez-Cárdenas, P., Kacoliris, F., Montero, R., Renjifo, J., Rivas, G., Rodríguez, J. & Scott, N. 2021. IUCN: Crotalus durissus  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T178477A44954627. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T178477A44954627.en. Accessed on 08 June 2022.

Vernacular names

Aymar aru: Saqapani katari
Deutsch: Schauer-Klapperschlange
English: Cascabel Rattlesnake
Esperanto: Bojsiningo
español: Cascabel tropical
euskara: Kriskitin-suge
français: Crotale cascabelle
magyar: Borzasztó csörgőkígyó
italiano: Cascabel
lietuvių: Tropikinė barškuolė
Nederlands: Zuid-Amerikaanse ratelslang
polski: Grzechotnik straszliwy
português: Cascavel
українська: Каскавела
中文: 南美響尾蛇

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