Type specimens of Crotalus scutulatus (Chordata: Reptilia: Squamata: Viperidae) re-examined, with new evidence after more than a century of confusion

Cardwell, Michael D.; Gotte, Steve W.; McDiarmid, Roy W.; Gilmore, Ned; Poindexter, James A.

doi:10.2988/0006-324X-126.1.11

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Type specimens of Crotalus scutulatus (Chordata: Reptilia: Squamata: Viperidae) re-examined, with new evidence after more than a century of confusion

Michael D. Cardwell;

Michael D. Cardwell *

(MDC) Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Sacramento, California 95819-6077, U.S.A., e-mail: [email protected];

(SWG & JAP) USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, National Museum of Natural History, Museum Support Center, MRC 534, Suitland, Maryland 20746, U.S.A.;

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Steve W. Gotte;

Steve W. Gotte

(MDC) Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Sacramento, California 95819-6077, U.S.A., e-mail: [email protected];

(SWG & JAP) USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, National Museum of Natural History, Museum Support Center, MRC 534, Suitland, Maryland 20746, U.S.A.;

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Roy W. McDiarmid;

Roy W. McDiarmid

(RWM) USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, PO Box 37012, National Museum of Natural History, Room 378, MRC 111, Washington D.C. 20013-7012, U.S.A.;

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Ned Gilmore;

Ned Gilmore

(NG) Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103-1195, U.S.A.

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James A. Poindexter, II

(MDC) Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Sacramento, California 95819-6077, U.S.A., e-mail: [email protected];

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Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington (2013) 126 (1): 11–16.

https://doi.org/10.2988/0006-324X-126.1.11

Abstract

The original description of Crotalus scutulatus (Chordata: Reptilia: Squamata: Viperidae) was published in 1861 by Robert Kennicott, who did not identify a type specimen or a type locality. We review the history of specimens purported to be the type(s) and various designations of type locality. We provide evidence that ANSP 7069 (formerly one of two specimens of USNM 5027) is the holotype and that the appropriate type locality is Fort Buchanan, near present-day Sonoita, in Santa Cruz County, Arizona.

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Type specimens of Crotalus scutulatus (Chordata: Reptilia: Squamata: Viperidae) re-examined, with new evidence after more than a century of confusion

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