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    Species Accepted

    Crotalus ravus Cope, 1865

    Mexican Pygmy Rattlesnake

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      12 results
      Cascabel Enana Spanish
      Cascabel pigmea mexicana Spanish
      Cascavel-anã-mexicana Portuguese
      Central Plateau Pygmy Rattlesnake
      Crotalo pigmeo messicano Italian
      Mexican Pygmy Rattlesnake English
      Mexikanische Zwergklapperschlange German
      Serpente a sonagli pigmeo messicano Italian
      Víbora de cascabel pigmea mexicana Spanish
      Víbora-cascabel pigmea-mexicana Spanish

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      47 results
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      Lemos-Espinal JA, & Smith GR. (2020). A conservation checklist of the herpetofauna of Morelos, with comparisons with adjoining states. ZooKeys 941: 121-144.
      García-Padilla, E., Heredia-López, I., Villalobos-Juárez, I., Lazcano, D., & Fucsko, L. A. (2025). Notes on the Herpetofauna of Mexico 48: From Sacred to Scorned---A Study of the Mexican Rattlesnake’s Changing Status. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society, 60(3), 25-30.
      Calzada-Arciniega, Rafael Alejandro; Ernesto Recuero, Mirna Grisel Garcia-Castillo, Gabriela Parra-Olea. (2017). New records and an updated list of Herpetofauna from Cerro Piedra Larga, an isolated mountain massif in Oaxaca, Mexico. Herpetology Notes 10: 651-658.
      Wüster, W., & Bérnils, R. S. (2011). On the generic classification of the rattlesnakes, with special reference to the Neotropical Crotalus durissus complex (Squamata: Viperidae). Zoologia 28 (4): 417–419.
      Illescas-Aparicio, M., Clark-Tapia, R., González-Hernández, A., Vásquez-Díaz, Pedro R. & Aguirre-Hidalgo, V. (2016). Diversidad y riqueza herpetofaunística asociada al bosque de manejo forestal y áreas de cultivo, en Ixtlán de Juárez, Oaxaca. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (N.S.) 32(3): 359-369.
      Casas-Andreu, G., F.R. Méndez-De la Cruz and X. Aguilar-Miguel. (2004). Anfibios y Reptiles; pp. 375–390, in A.J.M. García-Mendoza, J. Ordoñez and M. Briones-Salas (ed.). Biodiversidad de Oaxaca. Instituto de Biología, UNAM-Fondo Oaxaqueño Para La Conservación de La Naturaleza-World Wildlife Fund, México, D. F.
      Murphy, Robert W.; Fu, Jinzhong; Lathrop, Amy; Feltham, Joshua V.; Kovac, Viera. (2002). Phylogeny of the rattlesnakes (Crotalus and Sistrurus) inferred from sequences of five mitochondrial DNA genes. In Biology of the Vipers, edited by Gordon W. Schuett et al. Eagle Mountain Publishing, Pp. 69-92.
      Lemos-Espinal JA, & Smith GR. (2020). A conservation checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of the State of Mexico, Mexico with comparisons with adjoining states. ZooKeys 953: 137-159.
      Vásquez-Cruz, Víctor; Arleth Reynoso-Martínez, Alejandra Vásquez-Cruz, Jorge Luis Castillo-Juárez. (2021). New prey records for the Mexican Pygmy Rattlesnake Crotalus ravus (Serpentes: Viperidae) with an update on prey species. Reptiles & Amphibians 28 (2): 335-338.

      Citation

      Crotalus ravus Cope, 1865 in undefined