Crotalus basiliscus (COPE, 1864)

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Higher Taxa	Viperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Mexican West-Coast Rattlesnake, Basilisk Rattlesnake G: Basilisken-Klapperschlange
Synonym	Caudisona basilisca COPE 1864: 66 Crotalus basiliscus — COPE 1885: 180 Crotalus basiliscus basiliscus GLOYD 1948 Crotalus basiliscus basiliscus — KLAUBER 1952: 79 Crotalus basiliscus — CAMPBELL & LAMAR 1989: 335 Crotalus basiliscus — LINER 1994 Crotalus basiliscus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 278 Caudisona (Smythus) basiliscus — HOSER 2009 Crotalus basiliscus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 188
Distribution	Mexico (Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Michoacan, Sonora, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes) Type locality: "Near Colima, Mexico." Proposed emendation to Colima, Mexico by Smith and Taylor, 1950: 328.
Reproduction	viviparous
Types	Holotype: USNM 53586
Diagnosis
Comment	Venomous! Nomenclature: Hoser’s 2009 classification and nomenclature has been rejected as unnecessary and unavailable by WÜSTER & BERNILS 2011.
Etymology
References	Campbell, J.A. & Lamar, W.W. 1989. The Venomous Reptiles of Latin America. Comstock Publishing/Cornell University Press, Ithaca Carbajal-Màrquez, Rubèn A., Gustavo E. Quintero-Dìaz and Eric A. Rivas-Mercado. 2015. Geographic Distribution: Crotalus basiliscus (Mexican West Coast rattlesnake). Herpetological Review 46 (2): 219 Carbajal-Márquez, Rubén A., Jorge A. Bañuelos-Alamillo, Eric A. Rivas-Mercado, Gustavo E. Quintero-Díaz and Marco A. Domínguez-De La Riva. 2015. Geographic Distribution: Crotalus basiliscus (Mexican west coast rattlesnake). Herpetological Review 46 (3): 385 Cobarrubias, Edgar Flores; Daniel Cruz-Sáenz, and David Lazcano 2012. Notes on the Herpetofauna of Western Mexico 6: Amphibians and Reptiles of Hostotipaquillo, Jalisco, Mexico. Bull. Chicago Herp. Soc. 47 (2):21-26 - get paper here Cope, E.D. 1864. Contributions to the herpetology of tropical America. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 16: 166-181. - get paper here Cope, E.D. 1885. Twelfth contribution to the herpetology of tropical America. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 22: 167-194 [1884] - get paper here Enderson, Erik F.; Thomas R. Van Devender, Robert L. Bezy 2014. Amphibians and reptiles of Yécora, Sonora and the Madrean Tropical Zone of the Sierra Madre Occidental in northwestern Mexico. Check List 10 (4): 913-926 - get paper here García, A. & Ceballos, G. 1994. GUIA DE CAMPO DE LOS REPTILES Y ANFIBIOS DE LA COSTA DE JALISCO, MEXICO. FUNDACION ECOLOGICA DE CUIXMALA, A.C. INSTITUTO DE BIOLOGIA, UNAM Gloyd, Howard K. 1948. Description of a neglected subspecies of rattlesnake from Mexico. Natural History Miscellanea (17): 1-4 - get paper here Hardy, L.M., & McDiarmid, R.W. 1969. The amphibians and reptiles of Sinaloa, Mexico. Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. 18 (3): 39-252. - get paper here Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp 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. 1952. Taxonomic studies on rattlesnakes of Mainland Mexico. Bulletins of the Zoological Society of San Diego (26): 1-143 Loc-barragán J.A., D., Lazcano y G.A Woolrich-Piña. 2018. Notes on the Herpetofauna of Nayarit, Mexico 2: Amphibians and Reptiles of the Municipality of Compostela. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 53(10):205-212 Loc-Barragán, Jesús A., Rubén A. Carbajal-Márquez, Guillermo A. Woolrich-Piña and Roy R. Navarro-Orozco. 2016. Crotalus basiliscus. Arboreal habitat use/ Litter size. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3 (2): 494-496 - get paper here Luja VH, López JA, Cruz-Elizalde R, Ramírez-Bautista A 2017. Herpetofauna inside and outside from a natural protected area: the case of Reserva Estatal de la Biósfera Sierra San Juan, Nayarit, Mexico. Nature Conservation 21: 15-38 - get paper here McCranie J R 1981. Crotalus basiliscus (Cope). Mexican west coast rattlesnake. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles ( 283: 1-2 - get paper here McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp. Meik, Jesse M and André Pires-daSilva 2009. Evolutionary morphology of the rattlesnake style. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:35 - get paper here Rojo-Gutiérrez, Juan Rubén; David Jaimes-Rodríguez , Daniel Cruz-Sáenz , Laura López-Fernández , Enrique Chávez-Uribe and David Lazcano 2018. Notes on the Herpetofauna of Western Mexico 19: An Update to the Herpetofauna of Volcán de Tequila in Jalisco, Mexico Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 53(8):165-169 - get paper here Schmidt, Karl P.;Shannon, Frederick A. 1947. Notes on amphibians and reptiles of Michoacan, Mexico. Zoological Series of Field Museum of Natural History 31 (9): 63-85 Smith, Hobart M. & Taylor, Edward H. 1950. Type localities of Mexican reptiles and amphibians. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 33 (8): 313-380 - get paper here Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp. Webb, R.G. 1984. Herpetogeography in the Mazatlán-Durango Region of the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico. Vetrebrate Ecology and Systematics - A ribute to Henry S. Fitch; Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, Lawrence, pp. 217-241 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 Zweifel, Richard G. 1959. Additions to the herpetofauna of Nayarit, Mexico. American Museum Novitates (1953): 1-13 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List - Crotalus basiliscus - Least Concern, LC National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.desertmuseum.org/programs/yecora_fauna.html http://www.netcologne.de/~nc-seibtan/indextierbestand.html Google images

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