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    Species Accepted

    Crotalus basiliscus (Cope, 1864)

    Basilisk 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

      17 results
      Basilisk Rattlesnake English
      Basilisken-Klapperschlange German
      Cascabel del Pacífico Spanish
      Cascavel-basilisco Portuguese
      Crotalo basilisco Italian
      Mexican West-Coast Rattlesnake English
      Mexican west coast rattlesnake English
      Saye Spanish
      Serpente a sonagli basilisco Italian
      Vestmexicansk Klapperslange Danish

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      55 results
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      PASSOS, P., RODRIGUES, R., PINNA, P. H., WOITOVICZ-CARDOSO, M. A. N. O. E. L. A., FERNANDES, R., & CARAMASCHI, U. (2025). Filling gaps between museum and society: An illustrated catalog of the primary type specimens of Squamata housed in the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Zootaxa 5698(1): 1-91.
      Cope, E. D. (1885). Twelfth contribution to the herpetology of tropical America. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 22: 167-194 [1884].
      Goldberg, Stephen R. and Charles R. Bursey. (2006). Crotalus basiliscus Endoparasites. Herpetological Review 37 (1): 94.
      Loc-Barragán JA, Smith GR, Woolrich-Piña GA, & Lemos-Espinal JA. (2024). An updated checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Nayarit, Mexico with conservation status and comparison with adjoining States. Herpetozoa 37: 25-42.
      Webb, R. G. (1984). Herpetogeography in the Mazatlán-Durango Region of the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico. Vetrebrate Ecology and Systematics - A Ribute to Henry S. Fitch; Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Pp. 217-241.
      Luja VH, López JA, Cruz-Elizalde R, & Ramírez-Bautista A. (2017). Herpetofauna inside and outside from a natural protected area: the case of Reserva Estatal de la Biósfera Sierra San Juan, Nayarit, Mexico. Nature Conservation 21: 15-38.
      Loc-Barragán, Jesús A., Rubén A. Carbajal-Márquez, Guillermo A. Woolrich-Piña and Roy R. Navarro-Orozco. (2016). Crotalus basiliscus. Arboreal habitat use/ Litter size. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3 (2): 494-496.
      Lemos-Espinal JA, Smith GR, & Rorabaugh JC. (2019). A conservation checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Sonora, Mexico, with updated species lists. ZooKeys 829: 131-160.
      Santos-Barrera, Georgina; Jesus Pacheco, Fernando Mendoza-Quijano, Federico Bolaños,Gerardo Cháves , Gretchen C. Daily, Paul R. Ehrlich & Gerardo Ceballos. (2008). Diversity, natural history and conservation of amphibians and reptiles from the San Vito Region, southwestern Costa Rica. Rev. Biol. Trop. 56 (2): 755-778.

      Citation

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