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The desert tortoise is a native of the Mojave Desert in Southern Nevada. More than 52 registered species of reptiles live in Nevada, where 12 are considered venomous and an additional 6 are considered dangerous. [11] Venomous species of snakes include the sidewinder, western diamondback and Great Basin rattlesnakes.
Salvadora hexalepis, the western patch-nosed snake, is a species of non-venomous colubrid snake, which is endemic to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. [ 5 ] Geographic range
Colorado Desert shovelnose snake: SE California, Arizona, Baja California Sonora cincta (Cope, 1861) Arizona ground snake, banded burrowing snake, horse snake, red and black ground snake, Sonora ringed snake [1] USA (S Arizona), Mexico (N Baja California Sur, W Sonora) Sonora episcopa (Kennicott, 1859) ground snake
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.
Lichanura orcutti, also known as the rosy boa, the coastal rosy boa, or the northern three-lined boa, is a species of snake in the family Boidae.This species is found North of the US–Mexico border within San Diego County in California and along the coastal Peninsular Ranges, northward into the Mojave Desert and eastward in the Sonoran Desert of California and Arizona.
The southwestern United States in the desert region of eastern California, southern Nevada, extreme southwestern Utah, and western Arizona, northwestern Mexico in western Sonora and eastern Baja California C. cerberus (Coues, 1875) 0 Arizona black rattlesnake Central Arizona to western New Mexico C. concolor (Woodbury, 1929) 0
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Crotalus stephensi is found in desert-mountain areas of the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada from Mono County, California, east to Nye County, Nevada, south through southwestern Nevada, southeast to Clark County, Nevada, and southwest to central San Bernardino County, California at 900 to 2,400 m (3,000 to 7,900 ft) altitude.