Sistrurus

Sistrurus catenatus

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: Sistrurus
Species (3): S. catenatus – S. miliarius – S. tergeminus

Name

Sistrurus Garman, 1883: 110

• Type genus: Crotalus miliarius Linnaeus, 1766, by subsequent designation.

References

Primary references

• Garman, S. 1883. The reptiles and batrachians of North America. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy 8(3): xxxiv + 185 pp. BHL

Additional references

• Murphy, R.W., Fu, J.-Z., Lathrop, A., Feltham, J.V. & Kovac, V. 2002. Phylogeny of the rattlesnakes (Crotalus and Sistrurus) inferred from sequences of five mitochondrial DNA genes. pp. 69–92 In Schuett, G.W., Hoggren, M., Douglas, M.E. & Greene, H.W. (eds.). Biology of the Vipers. Eagle Mountain Press: Salt Lake City, Utah. ISBN 9780972015400 Reference page. 
• Hoser, R. 2009. A reclassification of the rattlesnakes; species formerly exclusively placed in the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 6: 1–21. PDF
• Kubatko, L.S., Gibbs, H.L. & Bloomquist, E.W. 2011. Inferring Species-Level Phylogenies and Taxonomic Distinctiveness Using Multilocus Data in Sistrurus Rattlesnakes. Systematic Biology 60(4): 393–409. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syr011 Reference page. 
• International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 2013. Opinion 2328 (Case 3571). Crotalinus catenatus Rafinesque, 1818 (currently Sistrurus catenatus) and Crotalus tergeminus Say in James, 1822 (currently Sistrurus tergeminus; Reptilia, Serpentes): usage conserved by designation of neotypes for both species. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 70(4): 282–283. DOI: 10.21805/bzn.v70i4.a13 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Sistrurus . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 16 July 2020.
• Sistrurus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Zwergklapperschlangen
English: Pygmy Rattlesnakes
español: Cascabeles pigmeas
polski: Grzechotniczek

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