
Taxonavigation
| Taxonavigation: Viperoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Viperidae
Subfamilia: Crotalinae
Genus: Crotalus
Species:
C. adamanteus – C. aquilus – C. atrox – C. basiliscus – C. campbelli – C. catalinensis – C. cerastes – C. culminatus – C. durissus – C. enyo – C. ericsmithi – C. exsul – C. horridus – C. intermedius – C. lannomi – C. lepidus – C. mitchelli – C. molossus – C. oreganus – C. ornatus – C. polystictus – C. pricei – C. pusillus – C. ruber – C. scutulatus – C. simus – C. stejnegeri – C. tancitarensis – C. tigris – C. tlaloci – C. tortugensis – C. totonacus – C. transversus – C. triseriatus – C. tzabcan – C. unicolor – C. vegrandis – C. viridis – C. willardi
Name
- Crotalus Linnaeus, 1758
- Gender: masculine
- Type species: Crotalus horridus Linnaeus, 1758
- Fixation: subsequent designation by Fitzinger 1843: 29 BHL
References
- Anderson, C.G.; Greenbaum, E. 2012: Phylogeography of northern populations of the black-tailed rattlesnake (Crotalus molossus Baird and Girard, 1853), with the revalidation of C. ornatus Hallowell, 1854. Herpetological Monographs '36': 369–371.
- Bryson, R.W., jr. et al. 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. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3826.3.3 Reference page.
- Campbell, J.A.; Lamar, W.W. 2004: The Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere. Comstock, Ithaca, NY.
- Hoser, R. 2009: A reclassification of the rattlesnakes; species formerly exclusively placed in the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus. Australasian Journal of Herpetology, 6: 1–21. PDF
- Kaiser, H., Crother, B.I., Kelly, C.M.R., Luiselli, L., O'Shea, M., Ota, H., Passos, P., Schleip, W. & Wüster, W. 2013: Best practices: in the 21st century, taxonomic decisions in herpetology are acceptable only when supported by a body of evidence and published via peer-review. Herpetological Review, 44: 8–23. PDF
- Fitzinger, L. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Fasciculus primus. Amblyglossae. Braumüller et Seidel: Wien. vi + 106 pp. BHL Reference page.
- Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiæ: impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. i–ii, 1–824 pp DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 : 214.
- McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré, T.A. 1999: Snake Species of the World. Vol. 1. Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp.
- Savage, J.M.; Campbell, J.A.; Lamar, W.W. 2005: On names for Neotropical rattlesnakes (Reptilia: Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalus). Herpetological Review 36: 369–371.
- 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: 417–419. PDF
- Wüster, W.; Ferguson, J.E.; Quijada-Mascareñas, J.A.; Pook, C.E.; Salomão, M.G.; Thorpe, R.S. 2005: Tracing an invasion: landbridges, refugia and the phylogeography of the Neotropical rattlesnake (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalus durissus). Molecular Ecology 14: 1095–1108. PDF
Vernacular names
Deutsch: Klapperschlangen
English: Rattlesnakes
Nederlands: Ratelslang
português: Cascavéis
ไทย: งูหางกระดิ่ง
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