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Crotalus cerberus
| Description | Crotalus cerberus is a venomous pit viper species found in the southwestern United States. It is known as the Arizona black rattlesnake, black rattlesnake, and several other common names. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotalus_cerberus, 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 cerberus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Generic Name | Crotalus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Scientific Name | Crotalus cerberus (Coues, 1875) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Common Name(s) | Arizona Black Rattlesnake, Schwarze Arizona-klapperschlange | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotalus_cerberus |
Obsolete Names
| Name | Source | Taxon Rank | Taxonomy |
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| Caudisona lucifer cerberus Coues, 1875 | GBIF | variety | Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Viperidae : Crotalus : Caudisona lucifer cerberus |
| Crotalus viridis cerberus Klauber, 1949 | GBIF | subspecies | Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Viperidae : Crotalus : Crotalus viridis cerberus |
| Caudisona lucifer cerberus Coues, 1875 | GBIF | subspecies | Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Viperidae : Crotalus : Caudisona lucifer cerberus |
| Crotalus oreganus cerberus Ashton Et Al., 2001 | GBIF | subspecies | Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Viperidae : Crotalus : Crotalus oreganus cerberus |
References
| Bezy, Robert L. and Charles J. Cole (2014) Amphibians and Reptiles of the Madrean Archipelago of Arizona and New Mexico.: American Museum Novitates (3810): 1-24 - via Catalogue of Life |
| Coues, Elliott (1875) Synopsis of the Reptiles and Batrachians of Arizona; with critical and field notes, and an extensive synonymy.: Report upon Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian. Volume V. Zoology: Reports upon the Zoological Collections Obtained from Portions of Nevada, Utah, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, dur - via Catalogue of Life |
| Crother, B. I. (2000) Scientific and standard English names of amphibians and reptiles of North America north of Mexico, with comments regarding confidence in our understanding.: Herpetological Circular 29: 1-82 - via Catalogue of Life |
| Douglas, Michael E.; Douglas, Marlis R.; Schuett, Gordon W.; Porras, Louis W.; Holycross, Andrew T. (2002) Phylogeography of the western rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis) complex, with emphasis on the Colorado Plateau. In Biology of the Vipers, edited by Gordon W. Schuett, Mats Hoggren, Michael E. Douglas, and Harry W. Greene, pp. 11-50.: Eagle Mountain Publishing, Utah. - via Catalogue of Life |
| Klauber, Laurence M. (1949) Some new and revived subspecies of rattlesnakes.: Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 11 (6): 61-116 - via Catalogue of Life |
| 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 - via Catalogue of Life |
| Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy (2014) Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species.: Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp. - via Catalogue of Life |
| 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 - via Catalogue of Life |
| Campbell, J.A. & Lamar, W.W. (1989) The Venomous Reptiles of Latin America.: Comstock Publishing/Cornell University Press, Ithaca - via Catalogue of Life |
| FLESCH, AARON D.; DON E. SWANN, DALE S. TURNER, AND BRIAN F. POWELL (2010) HERPETOFAUNA OF THE RINCON MOUNTAINS, ARIZONA.: Southwestern Naturalist 55(2):240–253 - via Catalogue of Life |
| Jones, K.B.; Abbas, D.R. & Bergstedt, T. (1981) Herpetological records from Central and Northeastern Arizona.: Herpetological Review 12 (1): 16 - via Catalogue of Life |
| Stebbins,R.C. (1985) A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, 2nd ed.: Houghton Mifflin, Boston - via Catalogue of Life |
| Ashton, Kyle G.; de Queiroz, Alan (2001) Molecular systematics of the Western Rattlesnake, Crotalus viridis (Viperidae), with comments on the utility of the D-Loop in phylogenetic studies of snakes.: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 21(2):176-189. - via Catalogue of Life |
| Lillywhite, Harvey B. (2014) How Snakes Work: Structure, Function and Behavior of the World's Snakes.: Oxford University Press, New York, 256 pp - via Catalogue of Life |
| Pook, Catherine E., Wolfgang Wüster and Roger S. Thorpe (2000) Historical biogeography of the western rattlesnake (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalus viridis), inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequence information.: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 15(2):269-282. - via Catalogue of Life |
| Werning, Heiko (2012) Die Reptilien und Amphibien des Südwestens.: Draco 13 (50): 18-60 - via Catalogue of Life |
| 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 |
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