REPTILIA (Reptiles) SQUAMATA (PART-SNAKES) (Snakes) CROTALIDAE (Pit Vipers)

Prairie Rattlesnake
Crotalus viridis (Rafinesque 1818)
krō-tă-ləs — vĭr-ə-dĭs


Conservation Status:

State: None

Federal: None
NatureServe State: S5 - Secure
NatureServe National: N5 - Secure
NatureServe Global: G5 - Secure
CITES: None
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Distribution:

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  • Occurrence Summary:  
  • 624
    Records 
  • 624
    Museum Vouchers 
  • 0
    Other Observations 
Some county occurrences indicated below may be too imprecise to map above.
County Breakdown: County Name (# occurrences):
Arthur (2); Banner (13); Blaine (5); Box Butte (8); Boyd (3); Brown (7); Buffalo (2); Chase (12); Cherry (172); Cheyenne (11); Custer (1); Dawes (2); Deuel (1); Dundy (47); Frontier (8); Garden (13); Hayes (2); Hitchcock (2); Kearney (1); Keith (9); Keya Paha (60); Kimball (10); Knox (1); Lincoln (7); Logan (2); Morill (11); Morrill (13); Perkins (1); Red Willow (5); Rock (5); Scotts Bluff (88); Sheridan (20); Sioux (51); Thomas (11); Unknown (18);

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Bibliography:
1995 Holycross, Andrew T. Crotalus viridis. Phenology. Herpetological Review 26(1):37-38
2001 Ashton, Kyle G. and Alan de Queiroz. Molecular systematics of the Western Rattlesnake, Crotalus viridis (Viperidae), with comments on the utility of the d-loop in phylogenetic studies of snakes Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 21(2):176–189
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