Crotalus pyrrhus

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 pyrrhus

Crotalus pyrrhus (Cope, 1866)

Holotype: USNM 6606, adult ♂, collected by collected by E. Coues, date unknown.
Type locality: “Canon Prieto, Yavapai County, Arizona”.

Cope, E.D. 1866. On the REPTILIA and BATRACHIA of the Sonoran Province of the Nearctic Region. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 18: 300–314. BHL
Yarrow, H.C. 1875. Report upon the collections of batrachians and reptiles made in portions of Nevada, Utah, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, during the years 1871, 1872, 1873. pp. 509-584. In Report upon geographical and geological surveys west of the one hundredth meridian. Volume 5.— Zoology. Government Printing Office: Washington. BHL

Meik, J.M., Streicher, J.W., Lawing, A.M., Flores-Villela, O. & Fujita, M.K. 2015. Limitations of Climatic Data for Inferring Species Boundaries: Insights from Speckled Rattlesnakes. PLoS One 10(6): e0131435. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131435 Reference page.

English: Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnake
español: Cascabel Moteada

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