Crotalus intermedius gloydi

Crotalus intermedius gloydi is a subspecies of venomous pitviper in the family Viperidae. The subspecies is endemic to Mexico in the states of Oaxaca and Puebla.[3]

Crotalus intermedius gloydi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Viperidae
Genus: Crotalus
Species:
C. intermedius
Subspecies:
C. i. gloydi
Trinomial name
Crotalus intermedius gloydi
Taylor, 1941
Synonyms[1]
  • Crotalus triseriatus gloydi
    Taylor, 1941
  • Crotalus gloydi lautus
    H.M. Smith in H.M. Smith & Laufe, 1945
  • Crotalus gloydi
    — H.M. Smith & Taylor, 1945
  • Crotalus gloydi lautus
    — H.M. Smith, 1946
  • Crotalus gloydi gloydi
    — H.M. Smith, 1946
  • Crotalus intermedius gloydi
    — W.B. Davis & Dixon, 1957
Common names: Oaxacan small-headed rattlesnake.[2]

Etymology

The subspecific name, gloydi, is in honor of American herpetologist Howard K. Gloyd.[4]

Description

This subspecies, Crotalus intermedius gloydi, can be identified by its scalation. It is characterized by having the postnasal scale in broad contact with the first supralabial scale. Also, the postnasal is usually not in contact with any other supralabial scale.[2]

Geographic range

Crotalus intermedius gloydi is found in Mexico, in south, central and northern Oaxaca, as well as in central Puebla.

The type locality given is "Cerro San Felipe (elevation 10,000 ft. [= 3,048 m]) near [15 km northwest of] Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico".[5]

References
  1. McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  2. Klauber LM (1997) [First published in 1956, 1972]. Rattlesnakes: Their Habitats, Life Histories, and Influence on Mankind (2 ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-21056-5.
  3. "Crotalus intermedius gloydi ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 9 July 2007.
  4. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Crotalus intermedius gloydi, p. 102).
  5. Campbell JA, Lamar WW (2004). The Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere. Ithaca and London: Comstock Publishing Associates. 870 pp., 1,500 plates. ISBN 0-8014-4141-2.

Further reading
  • Bryson RW (2007). "Fotopirsch auf Gebirgsklapperschlangen [= Photo Stalking of Mountain Rattlesnakes]". Reptilia (Münster) 12 (66): 32–37. (in German).
  • Davis WB, Dixon JR (1957). "Notes on Mexican Snakes (Ophidia)". Southwestern Naturalist 2 (1): 19–27. (Crotalus intermedius gloydi, new combination).
  • Nixon, Rob; Langner, Christian (2017). "Erster Hinweis auf epizoisches Algenwachstum an Segmenten der Rassel der Mexikanischen Zwergklappenschlange Crotalus intermedius gloydi Taylor, 1941 [= First indication of epizoic algal growth on segments of the rattle of the Oaxacan Small-headed Rattlesnake , Crotalus intermedius gloydi Taylor, 1941]". Sauria 39 (1): 47–50 (in German).
  • Taylor EH (1941). "Herpetological Miscellany, No. II". University of Kansas Science Bulletin 27 (7): 105-132 + Plates III-VI. (Crotalus triseriatus gloydi, new subspecies, pp. 130–132, text figure 7).
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