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Crotalus ruber Cope, 1892

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Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Reptilia
order
Squamata
family
Viperidae
genus
Crotalus
species
Crotalus ruber

Name

Homonyms
Crotalus ruber Cope, 1892
Crotalus ruber Mcdiarmid, Campbell & Touré, 1999
Common names
Red Diamond Rattlesnake in English
Red Diamond Rattlesnake (exsul: Cedros Island Rattlesnake in English
Rote Diamant-Klapperschlange in language.
Víbora-cascabel colorada in Spanish
red diamond rattlesnake in English
red diamond rattlesnake in language.

Bibliographic References

  1. Amaral,A. do (1929) Studies of nearctic ophidia IV. On Crotalus tortugensis VANDENBURGH AND SLEVIN, 1921, Crotalus atrox elegans SCHMIDT, 1922, and Crotalus atrox lucasensis (VANDEBURGH, 1920).: Bull. Antivenin Inst. Amer. 2 (4): 85-86
  2. Barry, S.J. (1998) Coluber infernalis Blainville, 1835 and Eutaenia sirtalis tetrataenia Cope in Yarrow, 1875 (currently Thamnophis sirtalis infernalis and T. s. tetrataenia; Reptil ia, Squamata): proposed conservation of the subspecific names by the designation of a n: Bull. Zool. Nomenclature 55 (4)
  3. Beaman, K. R. and E. A. Dugan (2006) Crotalus ruber.: Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 840: 1-17.
  4. 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
  5. Berg, M. van den et al. (2013) Traumterrarien.: Reptilia (Münster) 18 (100): 16-27
  6. Campbell, J.A. & Lamar, W.W. (1989) The Venomous Reptiles of Latin America.: Comstock Publishing/Cornell University Press, Ithaca
  7. Cope, E.D. (1892) A critical review of the characters and variations of the snakes of North America.: Proc. US Natl. Mus. 14: 589-694
  8. Crother, B. I. (ed.) (2012) Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians, Seventh Edition.: Herpetological Circular 39: 1-92
  9. Douglas, Michael E.; Marlis R. Douglas, Gordon W. Schuett & Louis W. Porras (2006) Evolution of Rattlesnakes (Viperidae: Crotalus) in the Warm Deserts of Western North America Shaped by Neogene Vicariance and Quaternary Climate Change.: Molecular Ecology 15: 3353-3374
  10. Dugan, Eric A. and William K. Hayes (2012) Diet and Feeding Ecology of the Red Diamond Rattlesnake, Crotalus ruber (Serpentes: Viperidae).: Herpetologica 68 (2): 203-217.
  11. Flores-Villela, Oscar / McCoy, C. J., ed., 1993: Herpetofauna Mexicana: Lista anotada de las especies de anfibios y reptiles de México, cambios taxonómicos recientes, y nuevas especies. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication, no. 17. iv + 73.
  12. Garman,Samuel (1884) The reptiles and batrachians of North America.: Mem. Mus. comp. Zool, Cambridge (Massachusetts), 8 (3): xxxiv + 185 pp. [1883] [CNAH reprint 10]
  13. Grismer, L. L.; McGuire, J. A.; Hollingsworth, B. D. (1994) A report on the herpetofauna of the Vizcaino Peninsula, Baja California, Mexico, with a discussion of its biogeographic and taxonomic implications.: Bull. Southern California Acad. Sci. 93 (2): 45-80
  14. Grismer, L. Lee. (1999) An evolutionary classification of reptiles on islands in the Gulf of California, México.: Herpetologica 55 (4): 446-469
  15. Harris, Herbert S. & Simmons, Robert S. (1978) A preliminary account of the rattlesnakes with the descriptions of four new subspecies.: Bull. Maryland Herp. Soc. 14 (3): 105-211 [1977]
  16. Hollingsworth, Bradford & Mellink, Erik (1996) Crotalus exsul lorenzoensis: Arboreal behavior.: Herpetological Review 27 (3): 143-144
  17. 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
  18. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 2000: OPINION 1960: Crotalus ruber Cope, 1892 (Reptilia, Serpentes): specific name given precedence over that of Crotalus exsul Garman, 1884. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 57, no. 3. 189-190.
  19. Klauber, Laurence M. (1949) The relationship of Crotalus ruber and Crotalus lucasensis.: Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 11 (5): 57-60
  20. Mattison, Chris (2007) The New Encyclopedia of Snakes.: Princeton University Press
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