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Mexican Hognose Snake
Heterodon kennerlyi
Heterodon kennerlyi, also known commonly as the Mexican hognose snake, Kennerly's hog-nosed snake, and la trompa de cerdo mexicana in Mexican Spanish, is a species of snake in the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae. The species is native to the southwestern United States and adjacent northeastern Mexico...
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Description
H. kennerlyi has 2–6 small azygous scales behind the rostral. Adults usually have a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 15–25 in (38–64 cm). The maximum recorded SVL is 29.9 in (76 cm).
Range & habitat
In the United States H. kennerlyi is found in southern Arizona, southern New Mexico, and southwestern Texas. In Mexico it is found in the Mexican states of Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Jalisco, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Tamaulipas, and Zacatecas.
Wikipedia: “Geographic range”
In human culture
The specific name, kennerlyi, is in honor of Caleb Burwell Rowan Kennerly, who was an American physician and naturalist.
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 29928.