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Pituophis catenifer affinis, commonly known as the Sonoran gopher snake, is a nonvenomous subspecies of colubrid snake that is endemic to the southwestern United States. It is one of six recognized subspecies of the gopher snake , Pituophis catenifer .
The mnemonic "red on yellow kill a fellow, red on black, friend of Jack" doesn't work with this snake. However, unlike the coral snake, which has a black snout, Sonora palarostris has a yellow snout and is not venomous. Also on a coral snake, the bands go all the way around, but S. palarostris has a solid yellow belly. [3]
Lampropeltis pyromelana, the Sonoran mountain kingsnake or Arizona mountain kingsnake, [2] is a species of snake native to the southwestern United States. It can grow up to 36 inches (910 mm) in length.
Scientific name Common Name Distribution Sonora aemula (Cope, 1879) filetail ground snake: Sonora annulata (Baird, 1859) 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]
Micruroides is a genus of venomous coral snake in the family Elapidae. The genus is monotypic, containing only the species Micruroides euryxanthus. Micruroides euryxanthus, commonly known as the Sonoran coral snake, western coral snake or the Arizona coral snake, is endemic to northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States.
This is a list of extant snakes, given by their common names. Note that the snakes are grouped by name, and in some cases the grouping may have no scientific basis. Contents:
Sonoran mountain kingsnake (Lampropeltis pyromelana) Milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum) Brown vinesnake (Oxybelis aeneus) Saddled leaf-nosed snake (Phyllorhynchus browni) Spotted leaf-nosed snake (Phyllorhynchus decurtatus) Gopher snake (Pituophis catenifer) Long-nosed snake (Rhinocheilus lecontei) Western patch-nosed snake (Salvadora hexalepis
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.