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At age 19, Gary Bagnall started a live reptile import/export business called "In Cold Blood" [2] out of a one-car garage in Costa Mesa, California. In 1978, Gary partnered with Elaphe snake breeder, Lloyd Lemke and the name changed to Orange County Zoological. In 1979, Gary and Lloyd parted ways, and the name changed again to California ...
Long-nosed snake Salvadora hexalepis: 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
Crotalus helleri or Crotalus oreganus helleri, also known commonly as the Southern Pacific rattlesnake, [3] the black diamond rattlesnake, [4] and by several other common names, is a pit viper species [5] or subspecies [3] found in southwestern California and south into Baja California, Mexico, that is known for its regional variety of dangerous venom types.
The Pacific gopher snake's saddle spots do not have the barren characteristic as those of the San Diego gopher snakes do. Also, the spots in the second row of spots are much larger on P. c. catenifer as compared to P. c. annectens. Finally, the Pacific gopher snake generally has more saddle spots than the San Diego gopher snake. [6]
An undeveloped parcel of land owned by San Francisco International Airport is home to a thriving population of an endangered snake species, a recent study revealed, CBS San Francisco reports. The ...
A Western rattlesnake, also known as Northern Pacific rattlesnake. The species is rarely found in Southern California, but a man in the Mojave Desert received one in the mail.
The California whipsnake, M. lateralis, has a range from Trinity County, California, west of the Sierra Nevada Mountains to northwestern Baja California, at altitudes between 0–2,250 metres (0–7,382 ft) and is known to use a wide variety of habitat types including the California coast and in the foothills, the chaparral of northern Baja, mixed deciduous and pine forests of the Sierra de ...
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