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The long-nosed snake is distinguished by a long, slightly upturned snout, which is the origin of its common name. It is tricolor, vaguely resembling a coral snake, with black and red saddling on a yellow or cream-colored background. Cream-colored spots within the black saddles are a distinct characteristic of the long-nosed snake.
Rhinocheilus is a genus of snakes, commonly called the long-nosed snakes, in the family Colubridae. [1] The genus is native to the western United States and Mexico . Species and subspecies
Northern water snake Colubridae: Pituophis catenifer deserticola: Great Basin Gopher snake Colubridae: Pituophis catenifer sayi: Bullsnake Colubridae: Rhinocheilus lecontei: Long-nosed snake Colubridae: Sonora semiannulata: Western Ground snake Colubridae: Tantilla hobartsmithi: Southwestern blackhead snake Colubridae: Tantilla nigriceps ...
Gyalopion canum, commonly known as the Western hooknose snake, is a species of small colubrid snake endemic to the deserts of the United States and Mexico. It is sometimes referred to as the Chihuahuan hook-nosed snake because it is commonly found in the Chihuahuan Desert .
The Texas long-nosed snake is a tricolor subspecies. Its color pattern consists of a cream-colored or white body, overlaid with black blotches, with red between the black. This color pattern gives it an appearance vaguely similar to that of a venomous coral snake, Micrurus tener or Micruroides euryxanthus. It has an elongated snout, to which ...
This is a checklist of American reptiles found in Northern America, based primarily on publications by the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR). [1] [2] [3] It includes all species of Bermuda, Canada, Greenland, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and the United States including recently introduced species such as chameleons, the Nile monitor, and the Burmese python.
The western hognose snake (Heterodon nasicus) is a species [2] of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to North America. There are three subspecies that are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies .
Tucson Herpetological Society: Saddled Leaf-Nosed Snake; Cope ED (1868). "Sixth Contribution to the Herpetology of Tropical America". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 20: 305–313. (Phimothyra decurtata, new species, pp. 310–311). Stebbins RC (2003). A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, Third ...