Crotalus armstrongi CAMPBELL, 1979

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Higher Taxa	Viperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Mexican Dusky Rattlesnake S: Chiauhcoatl de Armstrong
Synonym	Crotalus triseriatus armstrongi CAMPBELL 1979: 365 Crotalus triseriatus armstrongi — BEAMAN & HAYES 2008 Crotalus triseriatus armstrongi — MAYER-GOYENECHEA & GUAL 2014: 275 Crotalus armstrongi — BRYSON et al. 2014
Distribution	Mexico (Jalisco, Nayarit) Type locality: "Rancho San Francisco, 1.5 mi NW Tapalpa, Jalisco, Mexico, elevation 2103 m."
Reproduction	viviparous.
Types	Holotype: UTA R6258
Diagnosis
Comment	Venomous! Nomenclature: Hoser’s 2009 classification and nomenclature has been rejected as unnecessary and unavailable by WÜSTER & BERNILS 2011. Synonymy: Listed as a synonym of Crotalus triseriatus by WALLACH et al. 2014: 197. Conservation: one of the 30 most endangered viper species (Maritz et al. 2016).
References	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 BRYSON, ROBERT W.; JR., CHARLES W. LINKEM, MICHAEL E. DORCAS, AMY LATHROP, JASON M. JONES, JAVIER ALVARADO-DÍAZ, CHRISTOPH I. GRÜNWALD & ROBERT W. MURPHY 2014. Multilocus species delimitation in the Crotalus triseriatus species group (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae), with the description of two new species. Zootaxa 3826 (3): 475–496 - get paper here Campbell, J.A. 1979. A new rattlesnake (Reptilia, Serpentes, Viperidae) from Jalisco, Mexico. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 81 (4): 365–370 - get paper here Gual-Diaz, M. & Rendón-Correa, A. 2014. Bosques mesófilos de Montaña de México. CONABIO (Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad), México. 352 pp. Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp Maritz, Bryan; Johannes Penner, Marcio Martins, Jelka Crnobrnja-Isailović, Stephen Spear, Laura R.V. Alencar, Jesús Sigala-Rodriguez, Kevin Messenger, Rulon W. Clark, Pritpal Soorae, Luca Luiselli, Chris Jenkins, Harry W. Greene 2016. Identifying global priorities for the conservation of vipers. Biological Conservation, doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2016.05.004 - get paper here Woolrich-Piña, Guillermo A, Paulino Ponce-Campos, Jesús Loc-Barragán, Juan Pablo Ramírez-Silva, Vicente Mata-Silva, Jerry D. Johnson, Elí García-Padilla and Larry David Wilson. 2016. The herpetofauna of Nayarit, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation status. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3 (2): 376-448 - get paper here
External links	National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.vivanatura.org/Crotalus%20triseriatus%20ExtraPhotos.html Google images

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