Crotalus tzabcan explained

Crotalus tzabcan, the Yucatán neotropical rattlesnake, is a species of pit viper in the family Viperidae. It was previously thought to be a subspecies of Crotalus durissus, until Wüster elevated it to species status in 2005.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Wüster, W., Ferguson, J.E., Quijada-Mascareñas, J.A., Pook, C.E., Da Graça Salomão, M. and Thorpe, R.S. 2005. Tracing an invasion: landbridges, refugia, and the phylogeography of the Neotropical rattlesnake (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalus durissus,/i>). Molecular Ecology 14(4): 1095-1108.