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    Species Accepted

    Crotalus molossus Baird & Girard, 1853

    Black-tailed Rattlesnake
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Crotalus
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      19 results
      Black-tailed Rattlesnake English
      Blacktail Rattlesnake English
      Cascabel Serrana Spanish
      Cascabel de cola negra Spanish
      Cascavel-de-cauda-negra-ocidental Portuguese
      Crotalo coda nera occidentale Italian
      Oaxacan Black-tailed Rattlesnake)
      Schwarzschwanz-Klapperschlange German
      Serpent à sonnette à museau de chien French
      Serpent à sonnette à queue noire French

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      135 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.
      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.
      Klauber, Laurence M. (1949). Some new and revived subspecies of rattlesnakes. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 11 (6): 61-116.
      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.
      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.
      Harrison, Christopher R.;LaDuc, Travis J. (1998). Geographic distribution. Crotalus molossus molossus. Herpetological Review 29 (3): 176.
      Gehlbach, Frederick R.;Collette, Bruce B. (1957). A contribution to the herpetofauna of the highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico. Herpetologica 13: 227-232.
      Christman, Bruce;Painter, Charles W. (1998). Geographic distribution. Crotalus molossus. Herpetological Review 29 (4): 249.
      Lemos-Espinal JA, Smith GR, & Woolrich-Piña GA. (2018). Amphibians and reptiles of the state of San Luis Potosí, Mexico, with comparisons with adjoining states. ZooKeys 753: 83-106.

      Citation

      Crotalus molossus Baird & Girard, 1853 in undefined