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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]
Western patch-nosed snake Sonora semiannulata: Western ground snake Tantilla hobartsmithi: Southwestern blackhead snake Tantilla planiceps: Western black-headed snake Thamnophis atratus: Aquatic garter snake Thamnophis couchii: Sierra garter snake Thamnophis elegans: Terrestrial garter snake Thamnophis gigas: Giant garter snake Thamnophis hammondii
Sonora annulata, also known commonly as the Colorado Desert shovelnose snake, is a species of snake in the subfamily Colubrinae of the family Colubridae. [1] The species is native to the southwestern United States and adjacent northwestern Mexico .
Sonora semiannulata was once broken up into five separate subspecies, based on the vast differences in color and patterning that the species displays, but recent research has shown that the various colors and patterns of ground snake interbreed indiscriminately, making distinction between them impossible and thus not warranting subspecies ...
Pages in category "Sonora (snake)" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. S. Sonora (snake)
Binomial name; Sonora occipitalis (Hallowell, 1854) ... The snake is found in the United States (Arizona, California, Nevada) and Mexico. [2] References
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]
Binomial name; Sonora cincta (Cope, 1861) Sonora cincta is a species of snake of the family Colubridae. [1] The snake is found in the United States and Mexico. [1 ...