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Colorado Desert Shovelnose Snake (Sonora annulata) 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 (Thamnophis eques)
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 ...
This is a list of the known extant reptiles of Arizona. [1] The Arizona state reptile is the Arizona ridge-nosed rattlesnake ( Crotalus willardi willardi ). [ 2 ]
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.
Arizona mountain kingsnake, L. p. pyromelana (Cope, 1866) Mole kingsnake, Lampropeltis rhombomaculata (Holbrook, 1840) Ruthven's kingsnake, Lampropeltis ruthveni (Blanchard, 1920) Desert kingsnake, Lampropeltis splendida (Baird & Girard, 1853) Milk snake, Lampropeltis triangulum (Lacépède, 1789) Lampropeltis webbi Bryson, Dixon & Lazcano, 2005
The snakes also feed from within on energy-rich lipid stores. The most interesting finding was the snakes grew during the study, indicating while the snake's mass was shrinking, it was putting its resources into skeletal muscles and bone. [17] A key participant in the food chain, it is an important predator of many small rodents, rabbits, and ...
The desert rosy boa (Lichanura trivirgata) is a species of snake in the family Boidae. The desert rosy boa is native to the American Southwest and Baja California and Sonora in Mexico . The desert rosy boa is one of four species in the boa family native to the continental United States , the other three being the coastal rosy boa ( Lichanura ...
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] USA (S Arizona), Mexico (N Baja California Sur, W Sonora) Sonora episcopa (Kennicott, 1859) ground snake