Crotalus morulus KLAUBER, 1952

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Higher Taxa	Viperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Tamaulipan Rock Rattlesnake S: Cascabel Café de la Rocas
Synonym	Crotalus lepidus morulus KLAUBER 1952: 52 Crotalus lepidus morulus — LINER 1994 Crotalus lepidus morulus — BRYSON 2007 Crotalus morulus — BRYSON et al. 2014 Crotalus morulus — TERÁN-JUÁREZ et al 2016
Distribution	Mexico (Sierra Madre Oriental, Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila) Type locality: "10 miles northwest of Gomez Farias on the trail to La loya de Salas, Tamaulipas, Mexico, at an altitude of about 5300 ft., in a forested flat."
Reproduction	ovovivparous.
Types	Holotype: UMMZ 101376
Diagnosis
Comment	Venomous! Distribution: see maps in Campbell & Lamar 2004: 527 (Map 90) and Blair et al. 2018: 352 (Fig. 1). Not in Nuevo Léon fide Lemos-Espinal (pers. comm. 6 June 2016). Not in Coahuila fide Lazcano et al. 2019, but shown on map for Coahuila and Nuevo Leon by
References	Blair C, Bryson RW Jr, Linkem CW, Lazcano D, Klicka J, McCormack JE. 2018. Cryptic diversity in the Mexican highlands: Thousands of UCE loci help illuminate phylogenetic relationships, species limits and divergence times of montane rattlesnakes (Viperidae: Crotalus). Molecular Ecology Resources 19: 349–365 [2019] - get paper here Bryson, R.W. 2007. Fotopirsch auf Gebirgsklapperschlangen. Reptilia (Münster) 12 (66): 32-37 - get paper here 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 GARCÍA-PADILLA, ELÍ; IVÁN VILLALOBOS- JUÁREZ & DAVID LAZCANO 2024. APUNTES SOBRE LA PRESENCIA DE LA VÍBORA DE CASCABEL DE LAS ROCAS TAMAULIPECA (CROTALUS MORULUS) EN TAMAULIPAS Biología y Sociedad 7 (13): 22-37 Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp Klauber, Laurence M. 1952. Taxonomic studies on rattlesnakes of Mainland Mexico. Bulletins of the Zoological Society of San Diego (26): 1-143 - get paper here Liner, E.A. 1994. Scientific and common names for the Amphibians and Reptiles of Mexico in English and Spanish. Herpetological Circular 23: 1-113 Nevárez-de-los-Reyes, Manuel, David Lazcano, Elí García-Padilla, Vicente Mata-Silva, Jerry D. Johnson and Larry David Wilson. 2016. The Herpetofauna of Nuevo León, Mexico: Composition, Distribution, and Conservation. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3 (3): 558–638 - get paper here PAUL, LAURENCE & ROBERT W. MENDYK. 2021. Glow and Behold: Biofluorescence and New Insights on the Tails of Pitvipers (Viperidae: Crotalinae) and Other Snakes. Herpetological Review 52 (2): 221–237. - get paper here Terán-Juárez, Sergio A., Elí García Padilla, Vicente Mata-Silva, Jerry D. Johnson and Larry David Wilson. 2016. The herpetofauna of Tamaulipas, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation status. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3 (1): 43–113 - get paper here
External links	National Center for Biotechnology Information https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/247319147492691/ Google images

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