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Crotalus is a genus of pit vipers, commonly known as rattlesnakes or rattlers, [2] in the family Viperidae. The genus is found only in the Americas from southern Canada to northern Argentina . [ 1 ]
Crotalus lepidus is a venomous pit viper species found in the southwestern United States and northern central Mexico. Four subspecies are currently recognized, including the nominate subspecies described here.
Crotalus scutulatus is known commonly as the Mohave Rattlesnake. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Other common English names include Mojave Rattlesnake [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and, referring specifically to the nominate (northern) subspecies: Northern Mohave Rattlesnake [ 4 ] and Mojave Green Rattlesnake, [ 7 ] [ 5 ] the latter name commonly shortened to the more colloquial ...
Timber rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus This is a list of all sure genera, species and subspecies of the subfamily Crotalinae, [1] otherwise referred to as crotalines, pit vipers, or pitvipers, and including rattlesnakes Crotalus and Sistrurus.
Crotalus ruber is a venomous pit viper species found in southwestern California in the United States and Baja California in Mexico. Three subspecies are currently recognized, including the nominate subspecies described here.
Crotalus tlaloci is a species of rattlesnake from Mexico. The species is named after Tláloc, the Aztec god of rain. [1] As with all rattlesnakes, it is venomous. [2]
This category contains articles for taxa belonging to the genus Crotalus - the rattlesnakes of the Americas. This listing is incomplete, but all are valid names according to the taxonomy currently available online through ITIS .
Illustration taken from the drawing of an ancient marble in Spon's Miscellanea, [1] representing one of the crotalistriae performing.. In classical antiquity, a crotalum (κρόταλον krotalon) [2] was a kind of clapper or castanet used in religious dances by groups in ancient Greece and elsewhere, including the Korybantes.