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Arizona Milk Snake; Arizona mountain kingsnake; Arizona Patch-nosed Snake; Blackneck Garter Snake; Blind snake; Checkered Garter Snake; Coachwhip snake (Red Racer) Common Kingsnake; Desert Kingsnake; Gopher Snake; Glossy Snake; King Snake; Ground Snake; Desert Rosy Boa Snake; Saddled Leafnose Snake (Phyllorhynchus browni) Sonoran Gopher Snake
Arizona; Glossy snake (Arizona elegans) Scientific classification; Domain: Eukaryota: Kingdom: Animalia: ... Arizona is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae. [1]
The tail has two to eight (usually four to six) black bands separated by white or gray interspaces; this led to the nickname of "coontail", though other species (e.g., Mojave rattlesnake) have similarly banded tails. Its postocular stripe is gray or umber and extends diagonally from the lower edge of the eye across the side of the head.
Smith's black-headed snake (Tantilla hobartsmithi) Plains black-headed snake (Tantilla nigriceps) Chihuahuan black-headed snake (Tantilla wilcoxi) Yaqui black-headed snake (Tantilla yaquia) Blackneck garter snake (Thamnophis cyrtopsis) Western terrestrial garter snake (Thamnophis elegans) Mexican garter snake (Thamnophis eques)
Kingsnakes vary widely in size and coloration. They can be as small as 24" (61 cm) or as long as 60" (152 cm). [2] Some kingsnakes are colored in muted browns to black, while others are brightly marked in white, reds, yellows, grays, and lavenders that form rings, longitudinal stripes, speckles, and saddle-shaped bands.
The western ground snake can grow to a total length (including tail) of 8 to 19 inches (20.3 to 48.3 cm). The color and pattern can vary widely. Individuals can be brown, red, or orange, with black banding, orange or brown striping, or be solid-colored. The underside is typically white or gray.
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 snake exhibits black, dark brown, or gray coloration on its back, often with an olive or bluish tint. Along the center of each of the first four rows of pale dorsal scales, is a dark longitudinal stripe. There is a white to cream-colored stripe down its side that is bisected by either a solid or dashed black line.