Crotalus stephensi
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Crotalus stephensi is a venomous pitviper species[1] found in central and southern Nevada and adjacent California.[2] Common names include panamint rattlesnake, panamint rattler, Owens Valley rattler, and tiger rattlesnake (not to be confused with C. tigris).[3]
Etymology
The specific name, stephensi, is in honor of Frank Stephens (1849–1937), curator emeritus of the San Diego Society of Natural History.[4][5]
Description
Adults of C. stephensi are Template:Convert in total length (including tail), with an average of Template:Convert.[6]
According to Klauber (1936), this species is characterized by the absence of the vertical light line on the posterior edge of the prenasal and first supralabial scales. The supraocular scales are pitted, sutured, or with the outer edges broken.[3]
The color pattern consists of a straw, tan, buff, brown, or gray ground color, overlaid with a series of buff, gray, brown, or deep red-brown blotches. Often, gray suffusions occur on the sides of the body and head, and a scattering of black-tipped scales occur on the back, especially at the edges of the blotches.[3]
Geographic range
Crotalus stephensi is found in desert-mountain areas of the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada from Mono County, California, east to Nye County, Nevada, south through southwestern Nevada, southeast to Clark County, Nevada, and southwest to central San Bernardino County, California at Template:Convert altitude.[3]
Feeding
The diet of C. stephensi consists of small mammals, lizards, and birds.[6]
Reproduction
Crotalus stephensi is ovoviviparous, and the young are born in July and August. Neonates are about 25 cm in total length.[6]
See also
References
Further reading
- Klauber LM (1930). "New and Renamed Subspecies of Crotalus confluentus Say, with Remarks on Related Species". Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist. 6 (3): 95–144. (Crotalus confluentus stephensi, new subspecies, pp. 108–111).
- Klauber LM (1936). Crotalus mitchellii, the Speckled Rattlesnake". Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist. 8 (19): 149–184. (Crotalus mitchellii stephensi, new combination, pp. 162–166).
External links
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- ↑ Behler JL, King FW (1979). The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Reptiles and Amphibians. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 743 pp. LCCCN 79-2217. Template:ISBN. (Crotalus mitchelli stephensi, p. 690 + Plate 646).
- ↑ a b c d Wright AH, Wright AA (1957). Handbook of Snakes of the United States and Canada. Ithaca and London: Comstock Publishing Associates. (7th printing, 1985). 1,105 pp. (in 2 volumes). Template:ISBN. (Crotalus mitchelli stephensi, pp. 976-980, Figure 279 + Map 68 on p. 971).
- ↑ Beltz, Ellin. 2006. Scientific and Common Names of the Reptiles and Amphibians of North America – Explained. http://ebeltz.net/herps/biogappx.html#S
- ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. Template:ISBN. (Crotalus stephensi, p. 253).
- ↑ a b c Crotalus mitchellii stephensi Template:Webarchive at Californiaherps.com. Accessed 5 November 2006.
- Crotalus
- Snakes of North America
- Reptiles of the United States
- Fauna of California
- Fauna of the Mojave Desert
- Fauna of the Great Basin
- Fauna of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
- Fauna of the Southwestern United States
- Death Valley National Park
- Panamint Range
- Natural history of Nye County, Nevada
- Taxa named by Laurence Monroe Klauber
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