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Arizona Milk Snake; Arizona mountain kingsnake; Arizona Patch-nosed Snake; Blackneck Garter Snake; Blind snake; Checkered Garter Snake; Coachwhip snake (Red Racer); Common Kingsnake
The desert kingsnake (Lampropeltis splendida) is a species of kingsnake native to Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, United States. It is not venomous, colored yellow and black. The desert kingsnake's diet consists of rodents, lizards, and smaller snakes, including rattlesnakes. They normally grow 3–4 ft long, but have been known to grow up to 6 ...
This is a list of the known extant reptiles of Arizona. [1] The Arizona state reptile is the Arizona ridge-nosed rattlesnake ( Crotalus willardi willardi ). [ 2 ]
The snakes also feed from within on energy-rich lipid stores. The most interesting finding was the snakes grew during the study, indicating while the snake's mass was shrinking, it was putting its resources into skeletal muscles and bone. [17] A key participant in the food chain, it is an important predator of many small rodents, rabbits, and ...
Arizona mountain kingsnake, L. p. pyromelana (Cope, 1866) Mole kingsnake, Lampropeltis rhombomaculata (Holbrook, 1840) Ruthven's kingsnake, Lampropeltis ruthveni (Blanchard, 1920) Desert kingsnake, Lampropeltis splendida (Baird & Girard, 1853) Milk snake, Lampropeltis triangulum (Lacépède, 1789) Lampropeltis webbi Bryson, Dixon & Lazcano, 2005
Arizona elegans is a species of medium-sized colubrid snake commonly referred to as the glossy snake or the faded snake, [3] which is endemic to the southwestern United States and Mexico. It has several subspecies. Some have recommended that A. elegans occidentalis be granted full species status.
Adults of P. c. deserticola are usually about 4.5 feet (137 cm) in total length. The maximum recorded total length is 5.75 feet (175 cm). [6]The Great Basin gopher snake has dorsal spots that are dark brown or black, and they are connected to each other by very narrow lines that run along each side of the anterior part of the body.
Crotalus cerastes, known as the sidewinder, horned rattlesnake or sidewinder rattlesnake, [3] is a pit viper species belonging to the genus Crotalus (the rattlesnakes), and is found in the desert regions of the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.