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Crotalus pricei VAN DENBURGH, 1895

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Higher TaxaViperidae, Crotalinae, Serpentes (snakes) 
SubspeciesCrotalus pricei pricei VAN DENBURGH 1895
Crotalus pricei miquihuanus GLOYD 1940 
Common Namespricei: Western Twin Spotted Rattlesnake
miquihuanus: Eastern Twin Spotted Rattlesnake 
SynonymCrotalus pricei pricei VAN DENBURGH 1895: 856
Crotalus pricei VAN DENBURGH 1895
Crotalus pricei pricei SMITH 1946
Crotalus pricei — STEBBINS 1985: 233
Crotalus pricei pricei — LINER 1994
Crotalus pricei — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 291
Aechmophrys (Cottonus) pricei — HOSER 2009

Crotalus pricei miquihuanus GLOYD 1940
Crotalus triseriatus miquihuanus GLOYD 1940
Crotalus pricei miquihuanus — SMITH 1946
Crotalus pricei miquihuanus — LINER 1994
Crotalus pricei miquihuanus — BRYSON 2007 
DistributionUSA (SE Arizona), Mexico (W Sonora, E Chihuahua, W Durango, SE Coahuila,
S Nuevo Leon,SW Tamaulipas, Aguascalientes)

miquihuanus: SE Nuevo Leon, SW Tamaulipas, SE Coahuila Map legend:
TDWG region - 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.
 
TypesHolotype: CAS-SUR 1702 
CommentVenomous!

Reproduction: viviparous.

Nomenclature: Hoser’s 2009 classification and nomenclature has been rejected as unnecessary and unavailable by WÜSTER & BERNILS 2011. 
References
  • Alvarado-Diaz, J. & Campbell, J.A. 2004. A new montane rattlesnake (Viperidae) from Michoacán, Mexico. Herpetologica 60 (2): 281-286 - get paper here
  • Axtell, Ralph W.;Sabath, Michael D. 1963. Crotalus pricei miquihuanus from the Sierra Madre of Coahuila, Mexico. Copeia 1963 (1): 161-164 - get paper here
  • Beaman, K.R. & Hayes, W.K. 2008. Rattlesnakes: Research Trends and Annotated Checklist. In: Hayes et al. (eds), The biology of rattlesnakes. Loma Linda University Press, pp. 5-16
  • 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.
  • Bryson Jr, Robert W.; Robert W. Murphy,Matthew R. Graham, Amy Lathrop and David Lazcano 2011. Ephemeral Pleistocene woodlands connect the dots for highland rattlesnakes of the Crotalus intermedius group. Journal of Biogeography 38:
  • Bryson, R.W. 2007. Fotopirsch auf Gebirgsklapperschlangen. Reptilia (Münster) 12 (66): 32-37 - get paper here
  • Bryson, R.W. & Lazcano, D. 2003. Crotalus pricei miquihuanus. Reptilia (GB) (28): 43-46 - get paper here
  • Campbell, J.A. & Lamar, W.W. 1989. The Venomous Reptiles of Latin America. Comstock Publishing/Cornell University Press, Ithaca
  • 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
  • Love, B. 2012. Heimliche Orte. Reptilia (Münster) 17 (96): 20-21 - get paper here
  • McCranie J R 1981. Crotalus pricei van Denburgh. Twin spotted rattlesnake. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles No. 266 1980[1981]: 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.
  • Meik, Jesse M and André Pires-daSilva 2009. Evolutionary morphology of the rattlesnake style. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:35 - get paper here
  • Prival, D.B. et al. 2002. Natural history of a northern population of Twin-spotted Rattlesnake, Crotalus pricei. Journal of Herpetology 36 (4): 598-607 - get paper here
  • Prival, David B. and Michael J. Schroff 2012. A 13-Year Study of A Northern Population of Twin-Spotted Rattlesnakes (Crotalus pricei): Growth, Reproduction, Survival, and Conservation Herpetological Monographs 26 (1): 1-18. - get paper here
  • Stebbins,R.C. 1985. A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, 2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin, Boston
  • Van Denburgh 1895. Description of a new rattlesnake (Crotalus pricei) from Arizona. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (2) 5: 856-857
  • Vázquez Díaz, Joel;Quintero Díaz, Gustavo E. 2005. Anfibios y Reptiles de Aguascalientes [2nd ed.]. CONABIO, CIEMA, 318 pp.
  • Werning, Heiko 2012. Die Reptilien und Amphibien des Südwestens Draco 13 (50): 18-60 - 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
 
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