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Arizona Black Rattlesnake
Crotalus cerberus (Coues, 1875)

Current SSAR Comments:
See annotations under Crotalus. Douglas et al. (2016, Royal Society Open Science 3[160047]: 1–11) found five lineages within C. cerberus using mtDNA data.

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Black Rattlesnake (Caudisona lucifer: Coues, Elliott. 1875. Synopsis of the reptiles and batrachians of Arizona with critical and field notes, and an extensive synonymy. Report upon Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian. Volume 5. ():585-633); California Rattlesnake (Crotalus lucifer: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Mountain Diamond-back (Crotalus viridis cerberus: Klauber, Laurence M. 1949. Some new and revivied subspecies of rattlesnakes. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 11(6):61-116); Black Rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis cerberus: Klauber, Laurence M. 1949. Some new and revivied subspecies of rattlesnakes. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 11(6):61-116); Brown Rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis cerberus: Klauber, Laurence M. 1949. Some new and revivied subspecies of rattlesnakes. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 11(6):61-116); Arizona Black Rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis cerberus: Klauber, Laurence M. 1949. Some new and revivied subspecies of rattlesnakes. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 11(6):61-116); Black-diamond (Crotalus viridis cerberus: Klauber, Laurence M. 1949. Some new and revivied subspecies of rattlesnakes. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 11(6):61-116); Horned Rattlesnake (Crotalus cerastes: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Sidewinder (Crotalus cerastes: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Mojave Desert Sidewinder (Crotalus cerastes cerastes: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Colorado Desert Sidewinder (Crotalus cerastes laterorepens: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Arizona Black Rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis cerberus: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
The Reptile Database
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1875 Coues, Elliott. Synopsis of the reptiles and batrachians of Arizona with critical and field notes, and an extensive synonymy. Report upon Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian. Volume 5. ():585-633
2016 Douglas, Marlis R., Mark A. Davis , Melissa Amarello , Jeffrey J. Smith , Gordon W. Schuett , H.-W. Herrmann , Andrew T. Holycross and Michael E. Douglas Anthropogenic impacts drive niche and conservation metrics of a cryptic rattlesnake on the Colorado Plateau of western North America. Royal Society Open Science 3(160047):1-11

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