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Hognose (band)
Hognose snake is a common name for several unrelated species of snakes with upturned snouts, classified in two Colubridae, colubrid snake Family (biology), families and one Pseudoxyrhophiidae, pseudoxyrhophiid snake family. They include the following Genus, genera: *''Heterodon'', which occur mainly in the United States and northern Mexico *''Leioheterodon'', the hognose snakes native to Madagascar *''Lystrophis'', the South American hognose snakes. The North American ''Heterodon'' species are known for their habit of Apparent death#Thanatosis, thanatosis: playing dead when threatened. Species Genus ''Heterodon'': *Mexican hognose snake, ''Heterodon kennerlyi'' *Western/Plains hognose snake, ''Heterodon nasicus'' *Howard K. Gloyd, Gloyd's hognose snake, ''Heterodon nasicus gloydi'' *Eastern hognose snake, ''Heterodon platirhinos'' *Southern hognose snake, ''Heterodon simus'' Genus ''Leioheterodon'': *Speckled hognose snake, ''Leioheterodon geayi'' *Malagasy giant hogn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heterodon Platirhinos
The eastern hog-nosed snake (''Heterodon platirhinos''), also known as the spreading adder Wright, A.H., and A.A. Wright (1957). ''Handbook of Snakes of the United States and Canada''. (in 2 volumes). Ithaca and London: Comstock Publishing Associates, a Division of Cornell University Press. (7th printing, 1985). 1,105 pp. . (''Heterodon platyrhinos'', pp. 305-312, Figures 93-94, Map 29). and by various other common names, is a species of mildly venomous rear-fanged snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to North America. There are no subspecies that are recognized as being valid. Geographic range ''H. platirhinos'' is found from eastern-central Minnesota, and Wisconsin to southern Ontario and extreme southern New Hampshire, south to southern Florida and west to eastern Texas and western Kansas. Habitat Studies have shown that ''H. platirhinos'' prefers upland sandy pine-forests, old-fields and forest edges. Like most of the genus ''Heterodon'', the Eastern Hogn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
