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Phrontis tiarula, common name the western mud nassa, is a species of small sea snail with gills and an operculum, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Nassariidae, the nassa mud snails or dog whelks.
Farancia abacura abacura (Holbrook, 1836) – eastern mud snake; Farancia abacura reinwardtii (Schlegel, 1837) – western mud snake; Farancia erytrogramma – Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. Farancia erytrogramma erytrogramma (Palisot de Beauvois, 1802) – rainbow snake
The mud snake is one of a few animals which may be the origin of the hoop snake myth. J.D. Willson writes: Mud snakes are sometimes known as “hoop snakes” because of the myth that they will bite their own tail and roll after people. [3] The hoop snake myth has also been attributed to the coachwhip snake.
Prairie Ring-necked Snake Diadophis punctatus arnyi. Great Plains Rat Snake Elaphe guttata [2] Black Rat Snake Elaphe obsoleta. Western Fox Snake Elaphe vulpina. Western Mud Snake Farancia abacura reinwardtii [3] Plains Hog-nosed Snake Heterodon nasicus nasicus [2] Eastern Hog-nosed Snake Heterodon platirhinos. Prairie Kingsnake Lampropeltis ...
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:
This list of reptiles of Texas includes the snakes, lizards, crocodilians, and turtles native to the U.S. state of Texas.. Texas has a large range of habitats, from swamps, coastal marshes and pine forests in the east, rocky hills and limestone karst in the center, desert in the south and west, mountains in the far west, and grassland prairie in the north.
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Midland brown snake: Storeria occipitomaculata ssp: Redbelly snake: Thamnophis proximus proximus: Western ribbon snake: Thamnophis sirtalis ssp. Common garter snake: Virginia striatula: Rough earth snake: Virginia valeriae elegans: Western earth snake: Farancia abacura reinwardtii: Western mud snake: Heterodon platirhinos: Eastern hognose snake ...