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Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake
Crotalus willardi Meek, 1906

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

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Willard's Rattlesnake (Crotalus willardi: Van Denburgh, John. 1922. The Reptiles of Western North America: An Account of the Species Known to Inhabit California and Oregon, Washinton, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, British Columbia, Sonora, and Lower California. Volume I. Lizards. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. 556pp.); Willard's Rattlesnake (Crotalus willardi: 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.); Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake (Crotalus willardi: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Arizona Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake (Crotalus willardi willardi: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); New Mexican Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake (Crotalus willardi obscurus: Harris, Herbert, Jr., and R. S. Simmons. 1976. The paleogeography and evolution of Crotalus willardi, with a formal description of a new subspecies from New Mexico, United States. Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society 12(1):1-22); West Chihuahua Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake (Crotalus willardi silus: Harris, Herbert, Jr., and R. S. Simmons. 1976. The paleogeography and evolution of Crotalus willardi, with a formal description of a new subspecies from New Mexico, United States. Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society 12(1):1-22);

Taxon Links:

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

Pertinent LIterature:
1905 Meek, Seth Eugene. An annotated list of a collection of reptiles from southern California and northern lower California. Field Columbian Museum Publication 104 8(1):3-19
1949 Klauber, Laurence M. The subspecies of the Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake, Crotalus willardi. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 11(8):121-140

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