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abyssus: bottomless ( Grand Canyon )
adamanteus: diamondlike ( pattern )
Agkistrodon: hooked tooth
atricaudatus: black tailed
atrox: fierce, savage, cruel
barbouri: named for Thomas Barbour
catenatus: chainlike (pattern)
cerastes: horned
cerberus: black watchdog
cercombus: tail buzzer
cinctum: banded, girdled
conanti: named for Roger Conant
concolor: similarly colored, uniformed
contortrix: twister
Crotalus: rattle (tail)
edwardsi: named for L. A. Edwards
euryxanthus: broad yellow (bands)
fulvius: reddish yellow, orange (bands)
helleri: named for Edmond Heller
Heloderma: nail (studded) skin
horridus: horrid, dreadful
klauberi: named for Laurence Klauber
laterorepens: side creeping
laticinctus: broad band
lepidus: pretty, attractive; scaly
leucostoma: white mouth
lutosus: muddy |
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Micruroides:
like micrurus
Micrurus: small tail
miliarius: millet like (pattern)
mitchelli: named for S. Weir Mitchell
mokasen: moccasin
molossus: named for the Molossian wolf dog of antiquity
nuntius: messenger
obscurus: hidden, faded
oreganus: from Oregon
Pelamis: fishlike
phaeogaster: dark belly
pictigaster: painted belly
piscivorous: fish eating
platurus: flat tail
pricei: named for W. W. Price
pyrrhus: flame colored; reddish
ruber: red
scutulatus: small shield, diamondlike pattern
Sistrurus: rattle tail
stephensi: named for Frank Stephens
streckeri: named for John K. Strecker, Jr.
suspectum: suspected, distrusted
tener: tender, delicate (appearance)
tergiminus: triple, threefold (pattern)
tigris: tiger (pattern)
viridis: green
venomoid: snake w/ surgically removed or altered venom glands
willardi: named for Frank C. Willard
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