Common names: ground rattlesnakes, pygmy rattlesnakes, massasaugas[2]
Sistrurus is a genus of venomous pit vipers in the subfamily Crotalinae of the family Viperidae. The genus is endemic to Canada, the United States, and Mexico.[1] Its generic name is a Latinized form of the Greek word for "tail rattler" (Σείστρουρος, seistrouros) and shares its root with the ancient Egyptian musical instrument, the sistrum, a type of rattle.[citation needed] Three species are currently recognized.[3]
^ abMcDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
^Wright AH, Wright AA (1957). Handbook of Snakes of the United States and Canada. Ithaca and London: Comstock Publishing Associates, a Division of Cornell University Press. (7th printing, 1985). 1,105 pp. (in two volumes). ISBN 0-8014-0463-0. (Sistrurus, pp. 1040-1061).
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figures. ISBN 978-0-544-12997-9. (Sistrurus, pp. 443–445). Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sistrurus. Sistrurus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database...
pygmy rattlesnake, ground rattlesnake, leaf rattler, death rattler, more. Sistrurus miliarius, commonly called the pygmy rattlesnake, is a species of venomous...
elevated two subspecies Sistrurus catenatus catenatus and Sistrurus catenatus tergeminus, to full species: the eastern massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus) and the...
(Crotalus tergeminus, p. 342.) Sistrurus catenatus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 5 December 2007. Sistrurus catenatus at Herps of Texas...
(Caudisona edwardsii, pp. 531–532). Sistrurus tergeminus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed March 26, 2023. Sistrurus catenatus edwardsii at California...
105 pp. ISBN 0-8014-0463-0. (Sistrurus miliarius streckeri, pp. 1057-1061, Figure 304 + Map 70 on p. 1042). "Sistrurus miliarius streckeri ". Integrated...
Rattlesnakes are venomous snakes that form the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus of the subfamily Crotalinae (the pit vipers). All rattlesnakes are vipers...
two species of snakes: Sistrurus miliarius, a.k.a. the pigmy rattlesnake, a venomous pitviper found in North America Sistrurus catenatus, a.k.a. the massasauga...
snake, and most importantly, the venomous snake genera Agkistrodon and Sistrurus. Milk, fox, and scarlet snakes are killed because of a resemblance to...
(Micruroides and Micrurus), massasaugas (Sistrurus catenatus), and other rattlesnakes (Crotalus and Sistrurus). Among the non-venomous snakes preyed upon...
protein (P22827) found in the venom of the southeastern pygmy rattlesnake (Sistrurus miliarius barbouri). It belongs to the class of the arginin-glycin-aspartat-mimetics...
rattle on the end of the tail, which makes this group (genera Crotalus and Sistrurus) so distinctive. As of July 2023, 44 to 53 species are recognized as valid...
several daughter languages that refer to a small rattlesnake (massasauga, Sistrurus). An alternative explanation is derivation from an (Algonquian) exonym...
genus can be distinguished from Sistrurus by the small scales atop the head, rather than nine large scales found on Sistrurus. Adults usually grow to total...
rattlesnake, the state reptile of Arizona; and the desert massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus edwardsii). Other reptiles in the region include lizards and...
rattlesnake C. horridus—timber rattlesnake C. viridis—prairie rattlesnake Sistrurus catenatus—western massasauga rattlesnake S. miliarius—western pygmy rattlesnake...
Mexico, Volume 1: Heloderma, Micruroides, Micrurus, Pelamis, Agkistrodon, Sistrurus. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. xviii + 352 pp. ISBN 0-8018-9875-7...
distinctive paravertebral stripes running down the neck. Members of the genus Sistrurus lack tail rings and have enlarged head plates. It is found in the United...
is named after them. The Western and Eastern massasauga rattlesnake (Sistrurus catenatus) are named after them. Fort Mississauga is named after them...
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