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Crotalus polystictus
| Description | The Mexican lance-headed rattlesnake or lance-headed rattlesnake (Crotalus polystictus) is a venomous pit viper species found in central Mexico. No subspecies is currently recognized. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotalus_polystictus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Viperidae : Crotalus : Crotalus polystictus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Generic Name | Crotalus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Scientific Name | Crotalus polystictus (Cope, 1865) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Common Name(s) | Mexican Lancehead Rattlesnake, VĂbora-cascabel Ocelada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotalus_polystictus |
Obsolete Names
| Name | Source | Taxon Rank | Taxonomy |
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| Crotalus jimenezii Dugés, 1877 | GBIF | species | Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Viperidae : Crotalus : Crotalus jimenezii |
| Caudisona polysticta Cope, 1865 | GBIF | species | Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Viperidae : Crotalus : Caudisona polysticta |
| Aechmophrys polystictus Hoser, 2009 | GBIF | species | Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Viperidae : Crotalus : Aechmophrys polystictus |
| Rattlewellsus polystictus Hoser, 2012 | GBIF | species | Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Viperidae : Crotalus : Rattlewellsus polystictus |
| Crotalus ximenesii Dugés, 1877 | GBIF | species | Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Viperidae : Crotalus : Crotalus ximenesii |
References
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| McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré, 1999: null. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. xi + 511. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
| Leyte-Manrique, Adrian; EfrĂ©n M. Hernández Navarro y Luis A. Escobedo-Morales (2015) Herpetofauna de Guanajuato: Un análisis histĂłrico y contemporáneo de su conocimiento: Revista Mexicana de HerpetologĂa 1(1): 1–14 - via Catalogue of Life |
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| Meik, Jesse M.; Jeffrey W. Streicher, Estrella Mocin~o-Deloya, Kirk Setser, and David Lazcano (2012) Shallow phylogeographic structure in the declining Mexican Lance-headed Rattlesnake, Crotalus polystictus (Serpentes: Viperidae).: Phyllomedusa 11 (1): 3-12 - via Catalogue of Life |
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| Cope, E.D. (1885) Twelfth contribution to the herpetology of tropical America.: Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 22: 167-194 [1884] - via Catalogue of Life |
| Hoser, R. (2012) A classification of the rattlesnakes; species formerly exclusively referred to the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus and a division of the Elapid genus Micrurus.: Australasian Journal of Herpetology 11: 2-24 - via Catalogue of Life |
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| 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 - via Catalogue of Life |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
