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H. platirhinos has a wide geographical range from the central United States to the east coast. In the northern parts of the range, it can be found in southern Ontario, southern New Hampshire, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Going west the snake can be found in Texas and Kansas.
Eastern hognose snake (Heterodon platirhinos) Hognose snake is a common name for several unrelated species of snakes with upturned snouts, classified in two colubrid snake families and one pseudoxyrhophiid snake family. They include the following genera: Heterodon, which occur mainly in the United States and northern Mexico
H. nasicus tends to be sandy-colored with black and white markings, while H. platirhinos varies from reds, greens, oranges, browns, to black depending on locality. They are sometimes blotched and sometimes solid-colored.
Eastern hognose snake (Heterodon platirhinos). Extremely variable in pattern and coloration. Upturned nose. Splays its neck like a cobra when threatened, but also plays dead by exposing its belly. [9] Southern hognose snake (Heterodon simus). Pattern is consistent, light brown with lines of dark blotches.
H. n. kennerlyi: Kennicott, 1860 Mexican hog-nosed snake Mexico from Tamaulipas and central San Luis Potosí, north and west along the Sierra Madre Occidental, entering the United States in the extreme southern Rio Grande Valley, the Trans-Pecos, southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona. H. n. nasicus: Baird & Girard, 1852 Plains hog ...
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Heterodon platirhinos: Eastern hog-nosed snake: Adults are 20 to 40 inches (51 to 102 cm) in length and have variable coloring and patterning that ranges from yellow to black. Non-venomous. Lampropeltis triangulum triangulum: Eastern milk snake: Adults are 2 to 4 feet (0.61 to 1.22 m) in length and colored gray or tan with red or brown blotches.