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Crotalinae  Oppel, 1811
Taxonomic Serial No.: 634394

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Subfamily  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2017   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassReptilia Laurenti, 1768 – répteis, reptiles, Reptiles  
                         OrderSquamata Oppel, 1811 – Amphisbaenians, Lizards, Snakes, amphisbènes, lézards, serpents  
                            SuborderSerpentes Linnaeus, 1758 – Snakes, cobra, serpente, serpents  
                               InfraorderAlethinophidia Nopcsa, 1923  
                                  FamilyViperidae Oppel, 1811 – Pit Vipers, Vipers  
                                     SubfamilyCrotalinae Oppel, 1811  
    Direct Children:  
                                        GenusAgkistrodon Palisot de Beauvois, 1799 – Copperheads, Cottonmouths, American Moccasins 
                                        GenusAtropoides Werman, 1992  
                                        GenusBitis Gray, 1842  
                                        GenusBothriechis Peters, 1859  
                                        GenusBothrocophias Gutberlet and Campbell, 2001  
                                        GenusBothrops Wagler, 1824  
                                        GenusCalloselasma Cope, 1860  
                                        GenusCerrophidion Campbell and Lamar, 1992  
                                        GenusCrotalus Linnaeus, 1758 – Rattlesnakes 
                                        GenusDeinagkistrodon Gloyd, 1979  
                                        GenusGloydius Hoge and Romano-Hoge, 1981  
                                        GenusHypnale Fitzinger, 1843  
                                        GenusLachesis Daudin, 1803  
                                        GenusMixcoatlus Jadin, H. M. Smith and Campbell, 2011  
                                        GenusOphryacus Cope, 1887  
                                        GenusOvophis Burger, 1981  
                                        GenusPorthidium Cope, 1871  
                                        GenusProtobothrops Hoge and Romano-Hoge, 1983  
                                        GenusSistrurus Garman, 1884 – Massasaugas, Pigmy Rattlesnakes, Pygmy Rattlesnakes 
                                        GenusTrimeresurus Lacépède, 1804  
                                        GenusTropidolaemus Wagler, 1830  
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Roy W. McDiarmid   
  Notes: U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center   
  Reference for: Crotalinae    
       
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  Author(s)/Editor(s): McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré   
  Publication Date: 1999   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1   
  Page(s): xi + 511   
  Publisher: The Herpetologists' League   
  Publication Place: Washington, D.C., USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-893777-01-4, 1-893777-00-6  
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  Reference for: Crotalinae   
       

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