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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 .
Rattlesnake (probably western diamondback, but possibly timber) Texas — Shaw was bitten by a rattlesnake he was trying to kill in Bastrop County. [37] January 29, 2011 Wade Westbrook, 26, male: Copperhead: Tennessee — Westbrook was bitten just above the right elbow while handling a copperhead; he had been attempting to determine the snake's ...
Of the 6 venomous snake species native to N.C., 3 are rattlesnakes – pigmy, timber & Eastern diamondback. Each one is protected by the North Carolina Endangered Species Act.
Western worm snake: Clonophis kirtlandii: Kirtland's snake: Diadophis punctatus: Ring-necked snake: Liodytes rigida: Glossy swamp snake: Nerodia cyclopion: Mississippi green watersnake: Nerodia erythrogaster: Plainbelly water snake: Nerodia fasciata confluens: Broad-banded water snake: Nerodia rhombifer: Diamondback water snake: Nerodia sipedon ...
Western dusky rattlesnake Mexico: Jalisco and Nayarit: C. atrox: Baird & Girard, 1853 0 Western diamondback rattlesnake: The Southwestern United States from central Arkansas and southeastern California, south into Mexico as far as northern Sinaloa, Hidalgo, and northern Veracruz, disjunct populations in southern Veracruz and southeastern Oaxaca ...
Timber rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus This is a list of all sure genera, species and subspecies of the subfamily Crotalinae, [1] otherwise referred to as crotalines, pit vipers, or pitvipers, and including rattlesnakes Crotalus and Sistrurus.
The Western rattlesnake is common in eastern Washington and can be distinguished by its triangular-shaped head, rattles on its tail and diamond-shaped pattern on its back. The snakes typically ...
The eastern diamondback, facing a hostile public and habitat loss, is the ultimate underdog. But Marines and Marshall University want to save them World’s biggest rattlesnakes can swim from ...