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The hognose snake is an intermediate level reptile to keep and lives between 10-15 years in captivity. Typically, mice and rats are used to feed most snakes in captivity. With hognose being a toad specialist species, it can be tricky to get them to eat frozen thawed mice.
Hognose snake is a common name for several unrelated species of snakes with upturned snouts, classified in two colubrid snake families and one pseudoxyrhophiid snake family. They include the following genera :
Heterodon kennerlyi, also known commonly as the Mexican hognose snake, Kennerly's hog-nosed snake, and la trompa de cerdo mexicana in Mexican Spanish, is a species of snake in the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae. The species is native to the southwestern United States and adjacent northeastern Mexico [1]
Members of the genus are commonly known as hognose snakes, hog-nosed snakes, [3] North American hog-nosed snakes, [2] and colloquially puff adders [4] (though they should not be confused with the venomous African vipers of the genus Bitis).
Before the merge of the American hog-nosed skunks, the eastern hog-nosed skunk, Conepatus leuconotus is typically larger than the western hog-nosed skunk, Conepatus mesoleucus. Female eastern hog-nosed skunks range from 58 to 74 cm in length and 19–34 cm in height. They weigh between 2.0 and 4.0 kg.
Eastern Hognose Snake (Heterodon platirhinos) Southern Hognose Snake (Heterodon simus) Mole Kingsnake (Lampropeltis calligaster) Eastern Kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula) Milk Snake (Lampropeltis triangulum) Scarlet Kingsnake (Lampropeltis triangulum elapsoides) Coachwhip (Masticophis flagellum) Redbelly Water Snake (Nerodia erythrogaster)
This snake's common names include tricolor hognose snake, banded hognose snake, culebra falsa, and false coral snake. [3] It is sometimes incorrectly called ringed hognose snake, the common name for Xenodon semicinctus. Both X. pulcher and X. semicinctus are similar in appearance, which may be the cause of naming confusion.
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 .