#1627 · 🦎 reptiles
Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnake
🇳🇱 Texaanse ratelslang ·Crotalus atrox
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what is it?
The western diamondback rattlesnake or Texas diamond-back ( Crotalus atrox ) is a venomous rattlesnake species found in the southwestern United States and Mexico. S. No subspecies is currently recognized.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 32,606 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Spencer Fullerton Baird in 1853 (173 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnake
- Nederlands
- Texaanse ratelslang
- scientific name
- Crotalus atrox
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Squamata
- family
- Viperidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 32,606
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1853 by Spencer Fullerton Baird
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
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#1693 📷 9Prairie Rattlesnake
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 30764, Wikidata Q222287, GBIF 2444356, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.