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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 ...
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 ...
Western ground snake (Sonora semiannulata) [285] Western lyre snake (Trimorphodon biscutatus) [286] Western patch-nosed snake (Salvadora hexalepis) [287] Western skink (Eumeces skiltonianus or Plestiodon skiltonianus) [288] Western terrestrial garter snake (Thamnophis elegans) [289] Western threadsnake (Leptotyphlops humilis or Rena humilis) [290]
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 .
A ancient giant snake in India might have been longer than a school bus and weighed a ton, researchers reported Thursday. The newly discovered behemoth lived 47 million years ago in western India ...
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.