Crotalus pyrrhus

Crotalus pyrrhus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Viperoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Viperoidea

Familia: Viperidae
Subfamilia: Crotalinae
Genus: Crotalus
Species: Crotalus pyrrhus

Name

Crotalus pyrrhus (Cope, 1866)

• Holotype: USNM 6606, adult ♂, collected by collected by E. Coues, date unknown.
• Type locality: “Canon Prieto, Yavapai County, Arizona”.

Combinations

• Caudisona pyrrha Cope, 1866: 308 [original combination]
• Crotalus pyrrhus — Cope in Yarrow, 1875: 535 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Cope, E.D. 1866. On the REPTILIA and BATRACHIA of the Sonoran Province of the Nearctic Region. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 18: 300–314. BHL
• Yarrow, H.C. 1875. Report upon the collections of batrachians and reptiles made in portions of Nevada, Utah, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, during the years 1871, 1872, 1873. pp. 509-584. In Report upon geographical and geological surveys west of the one hundredth meridian. Volume 5.— Zoology. Government Printing Office: Washington. BHL

Additional references

• Meik, J.M., Streicher, J.W., Lawing, A.M., Flores-Villela, O. & Fujita, M.K. 2015. Limitations of Climatic Data for Inferring Species Boundaries: Insights from Speckled Rattlesnakes. PLoS One 10(6): e0131435. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131435 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Crotalus pyrrhus. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 17 July 2020.

Vernacular names

English: Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnake
español: Cascabel Moteada

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