Crotalus stephensi

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

Crotalus stephensi Klauber, 1930

Holotype: MVZ 6699, adult ♂, collected by Joseph Grinnell on 8 October 1917.
Type locality: “two miles west of Jackson Springs, Panamint Mts., altitude 6200 ft., Inyo County, California”.

Crotalus confluentus stephensi Klauber, 1930: 108 [original combination, as subspecies]
Crotalus mitchellii stephensi — Klauber, 1936: 162 [subsequent combination, as subspecies]
Crotalus stephensi — Douglas, Douglas, Schuett, Porras & Thomason, 2007: 924 [subsequent combination, elevate to species]

Klauber, L.M. New and renamed subspecies of Crotalus confluentus Say, with remarks on related species. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 6(3): 95–144. BHL
Douglas, M.E., Douglas, M.R., Schuett, G.W., Porras, L.W. & Thomason, B.L. 2007. Genealogical Concordance between Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNAs Supports Species Recognition of the Panamint Rattlesnake (Crotalus mitchellii stephensi). Copeia 2007(4): 920–932. DOI: 10.1643/0045-8511(2007)7[920:GCBMAN]2.0.CO;2 Reference page.

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: Panamint Rattlesnake

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