Taxonavigation

Familia: Viperidae
Subfamilia: Crotalinae
Genus: Crotalus
Species: Crotalus durissus
Subspecies: C. d. durissus – C. d. cumanensis – C. d. marajoensis – C. d. ruruima – C. d. terrificus – C. d. trigonicus – C. d. unicolor

Name

• Crotalus durissus Linnaeus, 1758

References

• Campbell, J.A.; Lamar, W.W. 2004: The venomous reptiles of the Western Hemisphere. Comstock, Ithaca, NY.
• 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.; 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
• Crotalus durissus at the New Reptile Database

Vernacular names