| Higher Taxa | Viperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Uracoan Rattlesnake
G: Uracoa-Klapperschlange |
| Synonym | Crotalus vegrandis KLAUBER 1941: 334
Crotalus durissus vegrandis — KLAUBER 1956
Crotalus vegrandis — HOGE 1966
Crotalus vegrandis — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 77
Crotalus vegrandis — MCCRANIE 1984
Crotalus durissus vegrandis — WELCH 1994: 45
Crotalus vegrandis — KORNACKER 1999: 175
Crotalus durissus vegrandis — CAMPBELL & LAMAR 2004
Crotalus durissus vegrandis — QUIJADA-MASCAREÑAS & WÜSTER 2006
Caudisona vegrandis — HOSER 2009
Crotalus vegrandis — RIVAS et al. 2012
Crotalus vegrandis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 196
Crotalus vegrandis — BENYR 2016
Crotalus durissus vegrandis — CARBAJAL-MÁRQUEZ et al. 2020 |
| Distribution | E Venezuela
Type locality: Uracoa, District Sotillo, Maturin, Estado Monagas, Venezuela.
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| Reproduction | ovovivparous. |
| Types | Holotype: CM, Paratype SDNHM = SDSNH 34607 |
| Diagnosis | Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (4043 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | Venomous!
Synonymy: RIVAS et al. 2012 consider C. vegrandis a full species mostly based on the following morphological differences: smaller length, peculiar colour pattern composed of gray and/or reddish brown ground colour with large white flecks distributed as irregular rings (vs rhomboidal blotches in C. durissus). However, CARBAJAL-MÁRQUEZ et al. 2020 found that vegrandis is more closely related to durissus than C. vegrandis, hence both should be subspecies of durissus (or possibly valid species.)
Nomenclature: Hoser’s 2009 classification and nomenclature has been rejected as unnecessary and unavailable by WÜSTER & BERNILS 2011. |
| Etymology | Named after Latin vegrandis, far from large, puny. [“...A species allied to C. durissus but differing therefrom, and from others in the same group, in being a dwarfed form with a peculiar pattern...”]. (from Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., May 2024) |
| References |
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- Campbell, Jonathan A. and William W. Lamar 2004. The Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere, 2 vols. Comstock (Cornell University Press), Ithaca, NY, 962 pp. [review in Science 305: 182]
- CARBAJAL-MÁRQUEZ, RUBÉN ALONSO; JOSÉ ROGELIO CEDEÑO-VÁZQUEZ, ARELY MARTÍNEZ-ARCE, EDGAR NERI-CASTRO, SALIMA C. MACHKOUR- M’RABET 2020. Accessing cryptic diversity in Neotropical rattlesnakes (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalus) with the description of two new species. Zootaxa 4729 (4): 451–481 - get paper here
- Chiszar, D., J. Chiszar, T. Walsh, B. Demeter & H.M. Smith 1984. Effect of male courtship on strike-induced chemosensory searching in a female Uracoan rattlesnake (Crotalus vegrandis) at National Zoo Bull. Maryland Herpetol. Soc., 20(4): 145-151. - get paper here
- Hoge, A.R. 1966. Preliminary account on Neotropical Crotalinae (Serpentes: Viperidae). Mem. Inst. Butantan 32 [1965]: 109-184 - get paper here
- Hoser, R. 2009. A reclassification of the rattlesnakes; species formerly exclusively referred to the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus. Australasian J. Herpetol. 3: 1-21 - get paper here
- Klauber, Laurence M. 1941. A new species of rattlesnake from Venezuela. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 9 (30): 333-336 - get paper here
- Kornacker,P.M. 1999. Checklist and key to the snakes of Venezuela. PaKo-Verlag, Rheinbach, Germany, 270 pp.
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