Sistrurus miliarius streckeri

Taxobox
name = "Sistrurus miliarius streckeri"

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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Serpentes
familia = Viperidae
subfamilia = Crotalinae
genus = "Sistrurus"
species = "S. miliarius"
subspecies = "S. m. streckeri"
trinomial = "Sistrurus miliarius streckeri"
trinomial_authority = Gloyd, 1935
synonyms = * "Sistrurus miliarius streckeri" - Gloyd, 1935McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).]

:"Common names: western pigmy rattlesnake, Strecker's pigmy rattlesnake, more.Wright AH, Wright AA. 1957. Handbook of Snakes. Comstock Publishing Associates. (7th printing, 1985). 1105 pp. ISBN 0-8014-0463-0.] ""Sistrurus miliarius streckeri" is a venomous pitviper subspeciesITIS|ID=209508|taxon=Sistrurus miliarius streckeri|year=2007|date=2 March] found in the south-central United States.

Description

Adult specimens are 40-63 cm in length. In one study, the average length of 55 males and 49 females was 52 cm.

Its color pattern is distinct and very irregular, the middorsal series of blotches being plainly wider than they are long. Along the sides there are only 1-2 series of spots, the upper ones being higher than they are wide. Any dark pigment on the belly is diffuse, the blotches there usually not being wider than one scale. This race also has the lowest number of ventral scales for the species (Gloyd, 1935).

Common names

Ground rattlesnake, pigmy rattlesnake, southern pigmy rattlesnake, Strecker's pigmy rattlesnake, western ground rattlesnake, western pigmy rattlesnake.

Geographic range

Found in the United States in Mississippi (except for southeast of the Pearl River Valley), west through Louisiana into eastern Texas, and north into southeastern Oklahoma, Arkansas, southern Missouri and southwestern Tennessee. The type locality listed is "... near Imboden, Lawrence County, Arkansas" (USA).

ee also

* List of crotaline species and subspecies
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* Snakebite

References

External links

* [http://www.snakesofarkansas.com/Main/SistrurusMiliarius Western Pigmy Rattlesnake] at [http://www.snakesofarkansas.com/ Snakes of Arkansas] . Accessed 2 March 2007.
* [http://www.houstonherp.com/WPygmyRattler.htm Western Pygmy Rattlesnake] at [http://www.houstonherp.com/ Houston Herpetological Supply] . Accessed 2 March 2007.