Crotalus Oreganus Lutosus
The Great Basin rattlesnake (''Crotalus lutosus'') is a venomous snake, venomous Crotalinae, pit viper species found in the Great Basin region of the United States. Taxonomy and naming The Great basin rattlesnake was first formally named by Laurence Monroe Klauber in 1930 as a subspecies of ''Crotalus confluentus'' (now known as ''Crotalus viridis''). It is commonly considered a subspecies of ''Crotalus oreganus''. The Type locality (biology), type locality is "10 miles northwest of Abraham on the Road to Joy, Millard County, Utah." The Grand Canyon rattlesnake (''C. abyssus'' or ''C. oreganus abyssus'') was subsumed within ''C. lutosus'' in 2016. Description Adult specimens are in overall length, but rarely exceed .Campbell JA, Lamar WW. 2004. ''The Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere''. Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca and London. 870 pp., 1500 plates. . The males grow larger than the females. On the subject of scalation, one of the more distinctive characteri ...
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Laurence Monroe Klauber
Laurence Monroe Klauber (December 21, 1883 in San Diego, California – May 8, 1968), was an American herpetology, herpetologist and the foremost authority on rattlesnakes. He was the first curator of reptiles and amphibians at the San Diego Natural History Museum and Consulting Curator of Reptiles for the San Diego Zoo. He was also a businessman, inventor, and contributed to mathematics in his study of the distribution of prime numbers. Biography The youngest of Theresa Epstein and Abraham Klauber , Abraham Klauber's twelve children, Klauber was born on December 21, 1883 in San Diego, California. He received his A.B. degree (Electrical Engineering) from Stanford University in 1908 and completed a Westinghouse graduate apprenticeship course in 1910. He married Grace Gould in 1911, and in that same year began his career with San Diego Gas & Electric Company. He received an honorary LL.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1941. Klauber died on May 8, 1968 in San Dieg ...
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