Crotalus intermedius gloydi

Crotalus intermedius gloydi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Viperidae
Subfamily:	Crotalinae
Genus:	Crotalus
Species:	C. intermedius
Subspecies:	C. i. gloydi
Trinomial name
Crotalus intermedius gloydi Taylor, 1941
Synonyms
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[1]

Common names: Oaxacan small-headed rattlesnake.^[2]

Crotalus intermedius gloydi is a venomous pitviper subspecies found in Mexico in the states of Oaxaca and Puebla.^[3]

Etymology

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

Description

This subspecies 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]

See also

• List of crotaline species and subspecies
• Crotalus by common name
• Crotalus by taxonomic synonyms
• Crotalinae by common name
• Crotalinae by taxonomic synonyms
• Snakebite

References

1. McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 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. Rattlesnakes: Their Habitats, Life Histories, and Influence on Mankind. Second Edition. First published in 1956, 1972. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-21056-5.
3. "Crotalus intermedius gloydi ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 9 July 2007.
4. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 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. 1500 plates. ISBN 0-8014-4141-2.

Further reading

• Taylor EH. 1941. "Herpetological Miscellany, No. II". Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 27 (7): 105-132 + Plates III-VI. (Crotalus triseriatus gloydi, new subspecies, pp. 130-132, text figure 7).

External links

• Crotalus intermedius at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 12 December 2007.