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    Species Accepted

    Crotalus cerastes Hallowell, 1854

    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Boynuzlu çıngıraklı yılan Turkish
      Cascabel cornuda Spanish
      Cascabel cornuda del noroeste Spanish
      Cascavel-chifruda Portuguese
      Colorado desert sidewinder)
      Crotale cornu French
      Crotalo ceraste Italian
      Gehörnte Klapperschlange German
      Seitenwinder German
      Serpente a sonagli ceraste Italian

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      84 results
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      Villegas-Patraca R, Aguilar-López JL, Hernández-Hernández JC, & Muñoz-Jiménez O. (2022). Diversity and conservation of terrestrial vertebrates (birds, mammals, and reptiles) of Sierra Cucapá, Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. ZooKeys 1088: 17-39.
      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.
      González-Romero, A., & Alvarez-Cárdenas, S. (1989). Herpetofauna de la Region del Pinacate, Sonora, Mexico: Un Inventario. The Southwestern Naturalist, 34(4), 519–526.
      Tingle, J. L. (2021). Evolution and Biomechanics of Specialized Locomotion in Snakes. PhD Thesis, University of California, Riverside.
      Cohen, A.C. & B.C. Myres. (1970). A function of the horns (Supraocular scales) in the sidewinder rattlesnake, Crotalus cerastes, with comments on other horned snakes. Copeia 1970 (3): 574-575.
      Moore, R. G. (1978). Seasonal and Daily Activity Patterns and Thermoregulation in the Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnake (Crotalus mitchelli pyrrhus) and the Colorado Desert Sidewinder (Crotalus cerastes laterorepens). Copeia 1978 (3): 439-442.
      O’Shea, M. (2018). The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London,.
      Hallowell, E. (1854). Description of new reptiles from California. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 7 [1854]: 91-97.
      Werning, & Heiko. (2012). Die Reptilien und Amphibien des Südwestens. Draco 13 (50): 18-60.

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