🐍Crotalus scutulatus
Crotalus scutulatus (nombres comunes: serpiente de cascabel del Mohave, Verde del Mojave, más.) es una especie de vipérido venenoso de la subfamilia Crotalinae. Se encuentra en los desiertos del Suroeste de Estados Unidos y del centro de México. Tal vez sea más conocida por un potente veneno neurotóxico. Está considerada como la serpiente venenosa más peligrosa de todo México. Scutulatus es una palabra latina que significa que tiene un remiendo con forma de escudo o de hoja; esto hace referencia a los grandes remiendos que ornamentan el dorso de esta serpiente, que tienen alguna semejanza con los escudos heráldicos.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2007.
- Body mass
- 0.83 kg
- Body length
- 1.4 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 14 years
Everything we know about the Crotalus scutulatus
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.83 kgrecord 1.39 kg · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Body length1.4 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0
Maximum lifespan14 yearsrecord 24 years · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Activity cycleNocturnalReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0
VenomousYesReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0
Volume l0.8 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Crotalus scutulatus yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classSquamata
- ›familyViperidae
- ›genusCrotalus
- ›speciesCrotalus scutulatus
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
- subfamilyCrotalinae
- genusCrotalus
All 14 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- superorderLepidosauria
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
- familyViperidae
- subfamilyCrotalinae
- genusCrotalus
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