Crotalus adamanteus PALISOT DE BEAUVOIS, 1799

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Higher Taxa	Viperidae, Crotalinae, Serpentes (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake G: Diamant-Klapperschlange
Synonym	Crotalus adamanteus PALISOT DE BEAUVOIS 1799 Crotalus adamanteus — BAIRD & GIRARD 1853: 3 Crotalus adamanteus STEJNEGER 1895 Crotalus durissus BOULENGER 1896 Crotalus adamanteus — CONANT & COLLINS 1991: 234 Crotalus adamanteus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 276 Hoserea (Edwardsus) adamanteus — HOSER 2009 Crotalus adamanteus — BOUNDY et al. 2012
Distribution	USA (SE North Carolina, E/S South Carolina, S Mississippi, S Alabama, S Georgia, Florida, SE Louisiana) Map legend: - Region according to the TDWG standard, not a precise distribution map. NOTE: TDWG regions are generated automatically from the text in the distribution field and this does not always work properly. We are working on it.
Types	TYPE(S): None designated [McDIARMID et al. 1999]
Comment	Venomous! Nomenclature: Hoser’s 2009 classification and nomenclature has been rejected as unnecessary and unavailable by WÜSTER & BERNILS 2011.
References	Baird, S. F. and C. Girard. 1853. Catalogue of North American Reptiles in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Part 1.-Serpents. Smithsonian Inst., Washington, xvi + 172 pp. Böhme, W. 2005. Der “Savannah River Ecology Site” und seine herpetologischen Highlights. Herpetofauna 25 (142): 13-21 - get paper here Boundy, Jeff; Frank T. Burbrink, Jonathan A. Campbell, Brian I. Crother, Kevin de Queiroz, Darrel R. 2012. Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians, Seventh Edition. SSAR, 101 pp. Braswell, A.L.; Palmer, W.M. & Beane, J.C. 2003. Venomous Snakes of North Carolina. North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, 31 pp. Conant,R. & Collins,J.T. 1991. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern/Central North America, 3rd ed. Houghton Mifflin (Boston/New York), xx + 450 p. Enge, Kevin M. 2009. Venomous and non-venomous snakes of Florida. Publication of the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission. 16 pp. Hallmen, M. 2005. Farb- und Zeichnungszuchten in der Terraristik. Reptilia (Münster) 10 (55): 16-22 - get paper here Hallmen, M. 2006. Selective Breeding for color and pattern. Reptilia (GB) (44): 12-18 - get paper here Hoser, R. 2009. A reclassification of the rattlesnakes; species formerly exclusively referred to the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 3: 1-21 - get paper here Hoss, Shannon K.; Craig Guyer, Lora L. Smith, and Gordon W. Schuett 2010. Multiscale Influences of Landscape Composition and Configuration on the Spatial Ecology of Eastern Diamond-backed Rattlesnakes (Crotalus adamanteus). Journal of Herpetology 44 (1): 110–123 - get paper here Hoss, Shannon K.; Gordon W. Schuett, Ryan L. Earley and Lora L. Smith 2011. Reproduction in Male Crotalus adamanteus Beauvois (Eastern Diamond-Backed Rattlesnake): Relationship of Plasma Testosterone to Testis and Kidney Dimensions and the Mating Season. Southeastern Naturalist, 10(1): 95-108 Krysko, K.K.; Enge, K.M.; Donlan, E.M.; Golden, E.Z.; Burgess, J.P. & Larson, K.W. 2009. THE NON-MARINE HERPETOFAUNA OF KEY BISCAYNE, FLORIDA. Herp. Cons. Biol. 5 (1):132-142 - get paper here Lönnberg, Einar 1894. Notes on reptiles and batrachians collected in Florida in 1892 and 1893 Proc. US Natl. Mus. 17 (1003): 317-339 - get paper here Love, W.B. & Love, K.V. 1979. Pure white rattlesnake [albinism]. Herpetological Review 10 (4): 113 Martin, William Henry and D. Bruce Means. 2000. Distribution and habitat relationships of the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus). Herpetological Natural History 7(1):9-34 McCranie J R 1980. Crotalus adamanteus Beauvois. Eastern diamondback rattlesnake. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles No. 252: 1-2 - get paper here McDiarmid,R.W.; Campbell,J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp. Means, D. B. 2009. EFFECTS OF RATTLESNAKE ROUNDUPS ON THE EASTERN DIAMONDBACK RATTLESNAKE (CROTALUS ADAMANTEUS). Herp. Cons. Biol. 4 (2): 132-141 Meik, Jesse M and André Pires-daSilva 2009. Evolutionary morphology of the rattlesnake style. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:35 - get paper here Monzel, Markus M 2012. Gifte, Gifttiere, Menschen – eine Geschichte voller (Miss)Verständnisse Draco 13 (51): 4-25 - get paper here Mutton, Nick 2012. Paradoxism. [color morphs] HerpNation 2.5 (8): 12-17 - get paper here Palisot de Beauvois 1799. Trans American Philos. Soc. 4: 362-381 Palmer, W.M. & Braswell, A.L. 1995. Reptiles of North Carolina. Univ. North Carolina Press Parkinson,C.L. 1999. Molecular systematics and biogeographical history of pitvipers as determined by mitochondrial ribosomal DNA sequences. Copeia 1999 (3): 576-586 - get paper here Smith, Chuck 1994. Crotalus adamanteus (eastern diamondback rattlesnake). USA: South Carolina Herpetological Review 25 (4): 166 Snyder, Richard C. 1945. Notes on the snakes of southeastern Alabama. Copeia 1945 (3): 173-174 - get paper here Timmerman, Walt 1995. Eastern diamondback rattlesnake: A species in decline League of Florida Herpetological Societies 1995 (October): 19-23 Winchell, S. 2007. Klapperschlangen! Die Gattung Crotalus. Reptilia (Münster) 12 (66): 18-25 - get paper here Wüster, W. & Bérnils, R.S. 2011. On the generic classification of the rattlesnakes, with special reference to the Neotropical Crotalus durissus complex (Squamata: Viperidae). ZOOLOGIA 28 (4): 417–419
External links	IUCN Red List - Crotalus adamanteus - Least Concern, LC http://www.biol.lu.se/zooekologi/jon/herpbild/herpbild.htm http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata/reptilia/squamata/viperidae.html http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpetology/fl-guide/venomsnk.htm Google images

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