Australasian Journal of Herpetology Issue 48Australasian Journal of Herpetology ®
Issue 48, published 3 August 2020


A monograph dealing with Rattlesnakes!
10 new species and 8 new subspecies!
It is easiest to download the whole thing as one big file (see link below).

New Rattlesnakes in the genera Crotalus Linne, 1758, Uropsophus Wagler, 1830, Cottonus Hoser, 2009, Matteoea Hoser, 2009, Piersonus Hoser, 2009 and Caudisona Laurenti, 1768 (Squamata: Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae).
... Raymond T. Hoser, pp. 1-64.

Other recent and important papers on Rattlesnakes you may have missed!

Hoser, R. T. 2018. A new species-level classification for the Aechmophrys cerastes (Hallowell, 1854) species group of Rattlesnakes (Squamata: Viperidae). Australasian Journal of Herpetology 37:14-17.

Hoser, R. T. 2016. New Rattlesnakes in the Crotalus viridis Rafinesque, 1818 and the Uropsophus triseriatus Wagler, 1830 species groups (Squamata:Serpentes:Viperidae:Crotalinae). Australasian Journal of Herpetology 33:34-41.

Hoser, R. T. 2009. A reclassification of the rattlesnakes; species formerly exclusively referred to the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 3:1-21.

Hoser, R. T. 2012. A reclassification of the Rattlesnakes; species formerly exclusively referred to the Genera Crotalus and Sistrurus and a division of the elapid genus Micrurus. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 11:2-24.

Issue 48 Front cover.

Issue 48 Back cover.

All Zoobank entries (ICZN), papers, new names, Full list (AJH Issue 48) (20 pages).

Full list of newly named genus and species in this issue of this journal and likely synonyms.

Full Zoobank listing of all species, genera, family and taxonomic works of Raymond Hoser as of 8 Aug 2020.

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ICZN Case 3601 ... ICZN Ruled on 30 April 2021 that all published issues of Australasian Journal of Herpetology ® is validly published according to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature and also that all new names within are valid and have priority over later names.

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