Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
By 1823
Primary Source Reference:
Thomas Say's descripton Edwin James, comp., Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the years 1819 and '20: By Order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Sec'y of War: Under the Command of Major Stephen H. Long. From the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and Other Gentlemen of the Exploring Party, 2 vols. (Philadelphia, 1823), 2: 48 / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40216994
Notes:
Crotalus viridis (common names: prairie rattlesnake, western rattlesnake, Great Plains rattlesnake, and others) is a venomous pit viper species native to the western U.S., southwestern Canada, and northern Mexico.
Richard Harlan also described this speies in "Genera of North American Reptilia, and a Synopsis of the Species," Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, vol. 5, part 2 (1827): 317-372 (described on p. 372) / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24657430
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Current Common Name:
Priaire rattlesnake
Current Scientific Name
Crotalus viridis
