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- Crotalus_simus abstract "Common names: Middle American rattlesnake, Central American rattlesnake, tzabcan (local name for subspecies C. s. tzabcan)Crotalus simus is a venomous pit viper species found in Mexico and Central America. The specific epithet is Latin for \"flat-nosed\", likely because its head is blunt compared with lanceheads (Bothrops). Three subspecies are recognized, including the nominate subspecies described here.Adults commonly exceed 130 cm (51 in) in length, with males growing larger than females. Large males reach 140-160 cm (55-63 in) in some populations. The maximum length is 180 cm (71 in).The body has a rough appearance because the dorsal scale keels are accentuated into protuberances or tuberculations. This is most apparent on the scale rows on either side of the body with a decreasing intensity in the lower rows. The vertebral scales are about as prominently keeled as the fourth row down on the flanks (with the vertebral scales as the first row).This species is found from Mexico in southwestern Michoacán on the Pacific coast, and Veracruz and the Yucatan Peninsula on the Atlantic coast, south through Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua to west-central Costa Rica. It is absent from Panama, but apparently does occur on the Atlantic side of Colombia. The type locality given is \"Ceylan\", which is incorrect. Its habitats are semiarid, including dry or very dry tropical forests, thorn woodland, and arid scrub forest. It also occurs in mesic forests with relatively dry, open areas.To the Mayans and their living descendants, the Yucatan subspecies (C. s. tzabcan) was greatly revered. The word tzabcan means rattlesnake in Mayan. What the rattlesnake actually symbolizes is unknown, but many temples have carved rattlesnake shapes. Shamans also dry and roast snakes, grinding them into a powder used as medicine.Bites are similar to rattlesnake bites in the United States. Local symptoms may be severe, with pain, massive swelling, blistering, and necrosis that lead to fasciotomies and in some cases amputations. Systemic effects involving hemostatic disturbances are rare, as are renal failure and neurotoxicity. Only venom from neonates contains crotoxin; a constituent typically found in C. durissus venom that produces neurotoxic symptoms.".
- Crotalus_simus conservationStatus "LC".
- Crotalus_simus conservationStatusSystem "iucn3.1".
- Crotalus_simus synonym "– Juliá-Zertuche & Treviño-Saldaña, 1978 (nomen nudum)".
- Crotalus_simus synonym "–Amaral, 1937".
- Crotalus_simus synonym "–Klauber, 1936".
- Crotalus_simus synonym "* C[rotalus]. terrificus –CopeInYarrowInWheeler, 1875".
- Crotalus_simus synonym "* C[rotalus]terrificus copeanus".
- Crotalus_simus synonym "* Caudisona durissa –Cope, 1861".
- Crotalus_simus synonym "* Crotalus (Crotalus) durissus durissus –J. Peters& Orejas-Miranda, 1970".
- Crotalus_simus synonym "* Crotalus durissus durissus".
- Crotalus_simus synonym "* Crotalus durissus neoleonensis".
- Crotalus_simus synonym "* Crotalus simusLatreilleInSonnini&Latreille, 1801".
- Crotalus_simus synonym "*Crotalus simus – Porras & Solarzano, 2006".
- Crotalus_simus synonym "*Crotalus simus – Quijada-Mascareñas & Wüster, 2006".
- Crotalus_simus thumbnail Yucatan_Neotropical_Rattlesnake_045.jpg?width=300.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageID "8025144".
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageLength "7813".
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageOutDegree "70".
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageRevisionID "676944373".
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Amputation.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Belize.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Bothrops.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Campeche.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Crotalus.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Reptiles_of_Guatemala.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert_Sonnini_de_Manoncourt.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Chiapas.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Colombia.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Costa_Rica.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Crotalus.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Crotalus_durissus.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Crotalus_simus_culminatus.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Crotalus_simus_tzabcan.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Dorsal_scales.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Edward_Drinker_Cope.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink El_Salvador.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Fasciotomy.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink George_Wheeler_(explorer).
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Guatemala.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Guerrero.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink H._C._Yarrow.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Honduras.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink James_A._Peters.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Laurence_Monroe_Klauber.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink List_of_crotaline_species_and_subspecies.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Maya_civilization.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Mesic_habitat.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Mexico.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Mexico_City.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Michoacán.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Morelos.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Nicaragua.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Nomen_nudum.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Oaxaca.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Panama.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Pierre_André_Latreille.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Pit_viper.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Puebla.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Quintana_Roo.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Snakebite.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Specific_name_(zoology).
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Subspecies.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Tabasco.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Type_(biology).
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Venomous_snake.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Veracruz.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Yucatán.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLink Yucatán_Peninsula.
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLinkText "C. simus".
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLinkText "C. simus".
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLinkText "Crotalus simus simus".
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLinkText "Crotalus simus".
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLinkText "Middle American rattlesnake".
- Crotalus_simus wikiPageWikiLinkText "Tzabcan rattlesnake".
- Crotalus_simus name "Crotalus simus".
- Crotalus_simus status "LC".
- Crotalus_simus statusSystem "iucn3.1".
- Crotalus_simus synonyms "– Amaral, 1937 * Crotalus durissus durissus – J. Peters & Orejas-Miranda, 1970 * Crotalus durissus neoleonensis".
- Crotalus_simus synonyms "– Juliá-Zertuche & Treviño-Saldaña, 1978 *Crotalus simus – Porras & Solarzano, 2006 *Crotalus simus – Quijada-Mascareñas & Wüster, 2006".
- Crotalus_simus synonyms "– Klauber, 1936 * C[rotalus] terrificus copeanus".
- Crotalus_simus synonyms "* Crotalus simus Latreille In Sonnini & Latreille, 1801 * Caudisona durissa – Cope, 1861 * C[rotalus]. terrificus – Cope In Yarrow In Wheeler, 1875 * Crotalus durissus durissus".
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- Crotalus_simus subject Category:Crotalus.
- Crotalus_simus subject Category:Reptiles_of_Guatemala.
- Crotalus_simus hypernym Species.
- Crotalus_simus type Eukaryote.
- Crotalus_simus type Species.
- Crotalus_simus type Redirect.
- Crotalus_simus type Thing.
- Crotalus_simus comment "Common names: Middle American rattlesnake, Central American rattlesnake, tzabcan (local name for subspecies C. s. tzabcan)Crotalus simus is a venomous pit viper species found in Mexico and Central America. The specific epithet is Latin for \"flat-nosed\", likely because its head is blunt compared with lanceheads (Bothrops). Three subspecies are recognized, including the nominate subspecies described here.Adults commonly exceed 130 cm (51 in) in length, with males growing larger than females.".
- Crotalus_simus label "Crotalus simus".
- Crotalus_simus sameAs Q146338.