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Horsehead Island speckled rattlesnake

Crotalus polisi

Classification

Family
Viperidae

Crotalus polisi, or the Horsehead Island speckled rattlesnake, is a species of rattlesnake from Isla Cabeza de Caballo, Baja California, Mexico. The species is named after the late Gary Allan Polis, an arachnologist and desert food-web ecologist from the University of California after his death in the capsizing of his research vessel in 2000. As with all rattlesnakes, it is venomous.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog