Crotalus angelensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Viperoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Serpentes Cladus: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Viperoidea

Crotalus angelensis Klauber, 1963

Holotype: SDNHM 51994, adult ♂, collected by Reid Moran on 22 March 1963.
Type locality: “about 4 miles southeast of Refugio Bay, at 1500 feet elevation, Isla Ángel de la Guarda, Gulf of California, Mexico (near 29°29 1/2' N, 113°33' W)”.

Crotalus mitchelli angelensis Klauber, 1963: 75 [original combination, as subspecies]
Crotalus angelensis Grismer, 1999: 461 [subsequent combination, elevate to species]

Klauber, L.M. 1963. A new insular subspecies of the speckled rattlesnake. Bulletins of the Zoological Society of San Diego 13(5): 73–80. BHL Reference page.
Grismer, L.L. 1999. An Evolutionary Classification of Reptiles on Islands in the Gulf of California, México. Herpetologica 55(4): 446–469. JSTOR Reference page.

Grismer, L.L. 2002. Amphibians and Reptiles of Baja California, Including Its Paciﬁc Islands and the Islands in the Sea of Cortés. University of California Press: Berkeley, California. 413 pp. ISBN 9780520925205 Reference page.
Campbell, J.A. & Lamar, W.W. 2004. The Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere. 2 Volumes. Cornell University Press: Ithaca, New York. 1032 pp. ISBN 9780801441417 Reference page.
Meik, J.M., Streicher, J.W., Lawing, A.M., Flores-Villela, O. & Fujita, M.K. 2015. Limitations of Climatic Data for Inferring Species Boundaries: Insights from Speckled Rattlesnakes. PLoS One 10(6): e0131435. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131435 Reference page.
Meik, J.M., Schaack, S., Flores-Villela, O. & Streicher, J.W. 2018. Integrative taxonomy at the nexus of population divergence and speciation in insular speckled rattlesnakes. Journal of Natural History 52(13–16): 989–1016. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2018.1429689 Reference page.

Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, P., Reyes, R., Kudera, F. & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Crotalus angelensis. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 13 July 2020.
Frost, D.R. 2007. IUCN: Crotalus angelensis (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2007: e.T64309A12762496. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T64309A12762496.en

English: Angel de la Guarda Island Speckled Rattlesnake
español: Cascabel de Isla Ángel de la Guarda

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