Crotalus pyrrhus (COPE, 1866)
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Higher Taxa | Viperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
Subspecies | |
Common Names | E: Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnake G: Südwestliche Gefleckte Klapperschlange S: Vibora Blanca del Suroeste |
Synonym | Caudisona pyrrha COPE 1866 Crotalus mitchellii mitchellii — STEJNEGER 1895 Crotalus mitchellii pyrrhus — STEJNEGER 1895 Crotalus mitchellii muertensis KLAUBER 1949 Crotalus mitchellii muertensis — CLIFF 1954 Crotalus mitchellii pyrrhus — CLIFF 1954 Crotalus mitchellii pyrrhus — STEBBINS 1985: 229 Crotalus mitchellii pyrrhus — LINER 1994 Crotalus mitchellii muertensis — LINER 1994 Crotalus muertensis — GRISMER 1999 Crotalus mitchellii pyrrhus — MATTISON 2007: 132 Crotalus mitchellii pyrrhus — BEAMAN & HAYES 2008 Crotalus mitchellii muertensis — BEAMAN & HAYES 2008 Crotalus mitchellii pyrrhus — LAITA 2013 Crotalus mitchellii pyrrhus — LOVE 2015 Crotalus muertensis — LEMOS-ESPINAL 2015 Crotalus pyrrhus — MEIK et al. 2015 |
Distribution | USA (S California, S Nevada, W Arizona, SW Utah), Mexico (NW Sonora, N Baja California) Type locality: Not given in original description; given as "Canon Prieto, a locality near Fort Whipple [Yavapai County], Arizona" by Coues In Wheeler 1875: 608, and as "Canyon Prieto, Yavapai County, Arizona" [USA], by Klauber, 1956, Rattlesnakes, 1st ed., 1:708 pp.[38]. muertensis: Mexico (Baja Califronia: El Muerto Island) |
Reproduction | ovovivparous. |
Types | Holotype: USNM 6606 (pyrrhus) Holotype : SDNHM = SDSNH 37447; paratypes SDNHM = SDSNH [muertensis] |
Diagnosis | |
Comment | Venomous! Synonymy: Grismer (1999) elevated angelensis and muertensis to full species status based on aspects of coloration, squamation, and size using an evolutionary species concept. However, he provides details only on some body measurements which are of little use without a larger number or specimen. Meik et al. 2015 found that muertensis nested within pyrrhus and thus considered both as synonymous. Listed as synonym of Crotalus mitchellii by WALLACH et al. 2014: 194. Nomenclature: Hoser’s 2009 classification and nomenclature has been rejected as unnecessary and unavailable by WÜSTER & BERNILS 2011. Distribution: see map in Meik et al. 2015: Fig. 1 |
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