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    Species Accepted

    Crotalus viridis (Rafinesque, 1818)

    Green Prairie 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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      Bozkır çıngıraklı yılanı Turkish
      Cascabel de pradera Spanish
      Cascavel-das-pradarias Portuguese
      Crotalo delle Grandi Pianure Italian
      Crotalo verde di prateria Italian
      Green Prairie Rattlesnake English
      Hopi Rattlesnake
      Hopi-Klapperschlange
      Prairie Rattlesnake
      Prärie-Klapperschlange German

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      135 results
      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.
      Cook, S.F., Jr. (1955). Rattlesnake hybrids: Crotalus viridis x Crotalus scutulatus. Copeia 1955 (2): 139-141.
      Furry, K., T. Swain & D. Chiszar. (1991). Strike-Induced Chemosensory Searching and Trail Following by Prairie Rattlesnakes (Crotalus viridis) Preying upon Deer Mice (Peromyscus maniculatus): Chemical Discrimination among Individual Mice. Herpetologica 47 (1): 69-78.
      Chiszar, D., & Adam Walters, a. H. M. S. (2008). Rattlesnake Preference for Envenomated Prey: Species Specificity. Journal of Herpetology 42 (4): 764.
      Hallowell, E. (1852). Descriptions of new species of reptiles inhabiting North America. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 6: 177-182.
      Bateman, Heather L.; Alice Chung-MacCoubrey, Howard L. Snell, and Deborah M. Finch. (2009). Abundance and Species Richness of Snakes along the Middle Rio Grande Riparian Forest in New Mexico. Herp. Cons. Biol. 4: 1.
      https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_names/1137444/edit
      Dawson, D, G., Mackessy, & P, S. (2018). Crotalus viridis (Prairie Rattlesnake) Reproduction: male-male-male combat. Herpetological Review 49 (3): 545.
      Meik, & Jesse M and André Pires-daSilva. (2009). Evolutionary morphology of the rattlesnake style. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:35.
      Macartney, J.M., P.T. Gregory & M.B. Charland. (1990). Growth and sexual maturity of the western rattlesnake, Crotalus viridis, in British Columbia. Copeia 1990 (2): 528-542.

      Citation

      Crotalus viridis (Rafinesque, 1818) in undefined