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    Species Accepted

    Crotalus polystictus (Cope, 1865)

    Mexican Lancehead Rattlesnake
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Crotalus
    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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      Cascabel ocelada Spanish
      Cascavel-ocelada Portuguese
      Crotalo del Messico Italian
      Crotalo testa di lancia messicano Italian
      Hocico de Puerco Spanish
      Mexican Lancehead Rattlesnake English
      Mexican lance-headed rattlesnake English
      Mexikanische Lanzenkopfklapperschlange German
      Serpente a sonagli del Messico Italian
      Serpente a sonagli testa di lancia messicano Italian

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      49 results
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      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.
      Tepos-Ramírez M, Garduño-Fonseca FS, Peralta-Robles CA, García-Rubio OR, & Cervantes Jiménez R. (2023). Annotated checklist of amphibians and reptiles from Querétaro, Mexico, including new records, and comments on controversial species. Check List 19(2): 269-292.
      Cope, E. D. (1885). Twelfth contribution to the herpetology of tropical America. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 22: 167-194 [1884].
      FLORES-VILLELA, OSCAR; CÉSAR A. RÍOS-MUÑOZ, GLORIA E. MAGAÑA-COTA & NÉSTOR L. QUEZADAS-TAPIA. (2016). Alfredo Dugès’ type specimens of amphibians and reptiles revisited. Zootaxa 4092 (1): 033–054.
      O’Shea, M. (2018). The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London,.
      McCranie, James R. (1976). Crotalus polystictus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (180): 1-2.
      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.
      Meik, & Jesse M and André Pires-daSilva. (2009). Evolutionary morphology of the rattlesnake style. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:35.
      Calzada-Arciniega, Rafael Alejandro, Rafael Barzalobre Geronimo, Ernesto Recuero and Gabriela Parra-Olea. (2016). Crotalus polystictus (Mexican Lance-headed Rattlesnake) Diet. Herpetological Review 47 (2): 310.

      Citation

      Crotalus polystictus (Cope, 1865) in undefined