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The western diamondback rattlesnake [3] or Texas diamond-back [4] (Crotalus atrox) is a rattlesnake species and member of the viper family, found in the southwestern United States and Mexico. Like all other rattlesnakes and all other vipers, it is venomous .
The largest rattlesnake round-up in the United States is held in Sweetwater, Texas. Held annually in mid-March since 1958, the event currently attracts approximately 30,000 visitors per year and in 2006 each annual round-up was said to result in the capture of 1% of the state's rattlesnake population, [ 5 ] but there are no data or studies to ...
Rattlesnake skin has a set of overlapping scales that cover the entire body, providing protection from a variety of threats, including dehydration and physical trauma. [65] The typical rattlesnake, genus Crotalus, has the top of its head covered with small scales, except, with a few species, a few crowded plates directly over the snout. [66]
A large western diamondback rattlesnake was safely caught after it was spotted on the side of a road in the vicinity of a state park in Laredo, Texas, footage posted on October 17 shows.Lake Casa ...
Rattlesnake: Texas — She was the first child to die of a snakebite in Parker County. [140] August 15, 1841 H. M. Pettigrew, 31, male: Rattlesnake: Texas — Pettigrew died from a rattlesnake bite while clearing land in Fannin County, Texas. [141] 1796 Richardson, infant son of Wm. & Ella Massasauga or Timber rattlesnake (Likely)
This snake is found in the Southwestern United States (Arizona, southern New Mexico, and southwestern Texas) and northern central Mexico. The type locality given is "Presidio del Norte and Eagle Pass" (Texas, USA). H.M. Smith and Taylor (1950) emended the type locality to "Presidio (del Norte), Presidio County, Texas". [2]
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.
A 2012 revision [4] showed that eastern populations from Texas and central and eastern New Mexico form a distinct species separate from C. molossus: Crotalus ornatus Hallowell 1854. Alternate common names are green rattler, [5] and Northern black-tailed rattlesnake. [6]