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Eastern Black-tailed Rattlesnake
Crotalus ornatus Hallowell, 1854

Current SSAR Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Black-tail Rattlesnake (Crotalus molossus: 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); Dog-faced Rattlesnake (Crotalus molossus: Stejneger, Leonhard. 1895. The poisonous snakes of North America. Annual Report of the United States National Museum 1893(2):337-487); Black-tailed Rattlesnake (Crotalus molossus: Schmidt, Karl Peterson and D. D. Davis. 1941. Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada. C.P. Putnam and Sons, New York. 365pp.);

Taxon Links:

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

Pertinent LIterature:
1854 Hallowell, Edward. Notices of new reptiles from Texas. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 7():192-193

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