Crotalus culminatus

Crotalus culminatus

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 culminatus

Name

Crotalus culminatus Klauber, 1952

• Holotype: FMNH 126616 (formerly EHT-HMS 5224), juvenile ♀, collected by E.H. Taylor and H.M. Smith in 1936.
• Type locality: “El Sabino near Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico”.

Combinations

• Crotalus durissus culminatus Klauber, 1952: 65 [original combination, as subspecies]
• Crotalus culminatus Wüster et al., 2005: 1103 [subsequent combination, elevate to species]

References

Primary references

• Klauber, L.M. 1952. Taxonomic studies of the rattlesnakes of mainland México. Bulletins of the Zoological Society of San Diego 26: 1–143. BHL Reference page. 
• Wüster, W., Dumbrell, A.J., Hay, C., Pook, C.E., Williams, D.J. & Fry, B.G. 2005. Snakes across the Strait: trans-Torresian phylogeographic relationships in three genera of Australasian snakes (Serpentes: Elapidae: Acanthophis, Oxyuranus, and Pseudechis). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34(1): 1–14. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2004.08.018 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Carbajal-Márquez, R.A., Cedeño-Vázquez, J.R., Martínez-Arce, A., Neri-Castro, E. & Machkour-M’Rabet, S.C. 2020. Accessing cryptic diversity in Neotropical rattlesnakes (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalus) with the description of two new species. Zootaxa 4729(4): 451–481. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4729.4.1 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Crotalus culminatus. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 12 July 2020.

Vernacular names

English: Northwestern Neotropical Rattlesnake
español: Cascabel Tropical del Pacífico

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