Crotalus morulus KLAUBER, 1952
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Crotalus morulus
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| Higher Taxa | Viperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Tamaulipan Rock Rattlesnake S: Cascabel Café de la Rocas |
| Synonym | Crotalus lepidus morulus KLAUBER 1952: 52 Crotalus lepidus morulus — LINER 1994 Crotalus lepidus morulus — BRYSON 2007 Crotalus morulus — BRYSON et al. 2014 Crotalus morulus — TERÁN-JUÁREZ et al 2016 Crotalus morulus — GARCÍA-PADILLA et al. 2025 |
| Distribution | Mexico (Sierra Madre Oriental, Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila) Type locality: "10 miles northwest of Gomez Farias on the trail to La loya de Salas, Tamaulipas, Mexico, at an altitude of about 5300 ft., in a forested flat." |
| Reproduction | ovoviviparous. |
| Types | Holotype: UMMZ 101376 |
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| Comment | Venomous! Distribution: see maps in Campbell & Lamar 2004: 527 (Map 90) and Blair et al. 2018: 352 (Fig. 1). Not in Nuevo Léon fide Lemos-Espinal (pers. comm. 6 June 2016). Not in Coahuila fide Lazcano et al. 2019, but shown on map for Coahuila and Nuevo Leon by |
| Etymology | Named after Latin morus, mulberry + Latin -ulus; of a, pertaining to a, in a condition of, in a state of. [“...The juveniles are very dark, both above and below, with black dorsal blotches on gray backgrounds that are heavily mottled by the intermediates. The adults are slate-gray to dark slate-gray with dark-brown blotches...”]. |
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