Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Viperidae > Sistrurus > Sistrurus miliarius

Sistrurus miliarius (Pigmy Rattlesnake; Dusky pygmy rattlesnake)

Synonyms: Crotalus miliarius

Wikipedia Abstract

Sistrurus miliarius is a venomous pit viper species found in the southeastern United States. Three subspecies are currently recognized including the nominate subspecies described here.
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Infraspecies

Sistrurus miliarius barbouri (Dusky pygmy rattlesnake)
Sistrurus miliarius miliarius (Carolina pygmy rattlesnake)
Sistrurus miliarius streckeri (Western pygmy rattlesnake)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  196 grams
Litter Size [1]  6
Maximum Longevity [2]  16 years
Venomous [3]  Yes

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
3Venomous snakes and antivenoms search interface, World Health Organization
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0