SUMMARY OF KNOWN LIVING RATTLESNAKE (SPECIES) TAXA

AND THEIR NEW GENERIC AND SUBGENERIC PLACEMENTS

(SEE HOSER 2009)

GENUS SISTRURUS GARMAN 1883

Type species: Crotalinus catenatus Rafinesque 1918.

S. miliarius (Linne 1766)

GENUS PIERSONUS HOSER 2009

Type Species: Crotalus ravus Cope 1865

P. ravus (Cope 1865)

GENUS CROTALUS LINNE 1758

Type Species: Crotalus horridus Linne 1758

SUBGENUS SAYERSUS HOSER 2009
Type species: Crotalinus viridis Rafinesque 1818
C. scutulatus (Kennicott 1861)
C. oreganus Holbrook 1840
C. abyssus Klauber 1930
C. cerberus Klauber 1949
C. concolor Klauber 1936
C. helleri Meek 1905
C. lutosus Klauber 1930

GENUS AECHMOPHRYS COUES 1875

Type species: Crotalus cerastes Hallowell 1854

A. polystictus (Cope 1865)

SUBGENUS COTTONUS HOSER 2009

Type species: Crotalus intermedius Troschel 1865

A. pricei (Van Denburgh 1895)

A. tancitarensis (Alvarado-Diaz and Campbell 2004

A. transversus (Taylor 1940)

A. willardi (Meek 1905)

GENUS CAUDISONA LAURENTI 1768

Type species: Crotalus durissus Linne 1758

C. culminatus (Klauber 1952)

C. simus (Latreille 1801)

C. tzabcan (Klauber 1952)

C. vegrandis (Klauber 1941)

C. unicolour (van Lidth de Jeude 1887)

SUBGENUS PILLOTUS HOSER 2009

Type species: Caudisona enyo Cope 1861

SUBGENUS SMYTHUS HOSER 2009

Type species: Crotalus molossus (Baird and Girard 1853)

C. basiliscus Cope 1864

C. estebanensis (Klauber 1949)

C. totonacus (Gloyd and Kauffeld 1940)

GENUS UROPSOPHUS WAGLER 1830

Type species: Uropsophus triseriatus Wagler 1830

U. aquilus (Klauber 1952)

U. lepidus (Kennicott 1861)

U. pusillus (Klauber 1908)

CUMMINGEA HOSER 2009

Type species: Crotalus stejnegeri Dunn 1919

C. ericsmithi (Campbell and Flores-Villella 2008)

C. lannomi (Tanner 1966)

HOSEREA HOSER 2009

Type species: Crotalus atrox Baird and Girard 1853

H. tortugensis (Van Denburgh and Slevin 1921)

EDWARDSUS HOSER 2009

Type species: Crotalus adamanteus Beauvois 1799

MULLINSUS HOSER 2009

Type species: Crotalus ruber Cope 1892

H. exsul (Garman 1883)

H. lorenzoensis (Radcliffe and Maslin 1975)

CRUTCHFIELDUS HOSER 2009

Type species: Crotalus catalinensis Cliff 1954

MATTEOEA HOSER 2009

Type species: Caudisona mitchellii Cope 1861

M. angelensis (Klauber 1963)

M. tigris (Kennicott 1859)

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