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The giant hairy scorpion is the largest scorpion in North America and is one of the 23 species of scorpion in Nevada. [1] The fauna of the U.S. state of Nevada is mostly species adapted to desert, temperature extremes and to lack of moisture. With an average annual rainfall of only about 7 inches (180 mm), Nevada is the driest – and has the ...
Crotalus scutulatus is known commonly as the Mohave Rattlesnake. [3] [4] Other common English names include Mojave Rattlesnake [5] [6] and, referring specifically to the nominate (northern) subspecies: Northern Mohave Rattlesnake [4] and Mojave Green Rattlesnake, [7] [5] the latter name commonly shortened to the more colloquial “Mojave green”. [8]
The family Boidae consists of the nonvenomous snakes commonly called boas and consists of 43 species. The genus Charina consists of two species , both of which are found in North America. There is debate on whether the southern rubber boa, a population found in the San Bernardino and San Jacinto Mountains east of Los Angeles in California ...
The United States in the Great Basin region. Its range includes Idaho south of lat. 44° North, Utah west of long. 111° West, Arizona west and north of the Colorado River as well as the north rim of the Grand Canyon, the entire state of Nevada (excluding Esmeralda, Nye and Clark counties), California east of the Sierra Nevada from Lower Klamath Lake south to below Lake Mono, Oregon south and ...
Northern grasshopper mouse (Onychomys leucogaster) Southern grasshopper mouse (Onychomys torridus) Brush mouse (Peromyscus boylii) Canyon mouse (Peromyscus crinitus) Cactus mouse (Peromyscus eremicus) Gambel's deer mouse, (Peromyscus gambelii) Western deer mouse, (Peromyscus sonoriensis) Pinyon mouse (Peromyscus truei)
A new snake species, the northern green anaconda, sits on a riverbank in the Amazon's Orinoco basin. “The size of these magnificent creatures was incredible," Fry said in a news release earlier ...
The western ground snake (Sonora semiannulata) is a species of small, harmless colubrid snake. The species is endemic to North America. Its patterning and coloration can vary widely, even within the same geographic region. [ 4 ]
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