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Colorado Desert shovelnose snake (Sonora annulata) Note: Often lacks red bands; Desert kingsnake (Lampropeltis splendida) Desert nightsnake (Hypsiglena chlorophaea) Desert rosy boa (Lichanura trivirgata) Eastern patch-nosed snake (Salvadora grahamiae) Glossy snake (Arizona elegans) Green rat snake (Senticolis triaspis) Mexican garter snake ...
The desert kingsnake (Lampropeltis splendida) is a species of kingsnake native to Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, United States. It is not venomous, colored yellow and black. The desert kingsnake's diet consists of rodents, lizards, and smaller snakes, including rattlesnakes. They normally grow 3–4 ft long, but have been known to grow up to 6 ...
Long-nosed snake (Rhinocheilus lecontei) Western patch-nosed snake (Salvadora hexalepis; Eastern patch-nosed snake (Salvadora grahamiae) Green ratsnake (Senticolis triaspis) Sonoran lyresnake (Trimorphodon lambda) Smith's black-headed snake (Tantilla hobartsmithi) Plains black-headed snake (Tantilla nigriceps) Chihuahuan black-headed snake ...
Crotalus cerastes, known as the sidewinder, horned rattlesnake or sidewinder rattlesnake, [3] is a pit viper species belonging to the genus Crotalus (the rattlesnakes), and is found in the desert regions of the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
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.
Arizona elegans is a species of medium-sized colubrid snake commonly referred to as the glossy snake or the faded snake, [3] which is endemic to the southwestern United States and Mexico. It has several subspecies. Some have recommended that A. elegans occidentalis be granted full species status.
Texas has the most snakes in the United States but if you want to talk about venomous snakes, you have to look to Arizona, which has — wait for it — 19 of the country’s 20 dangerous snakes.
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]