Eastern Hog-nosed Snake (Heterodon platirhinos)
Description: A thick-bodied, slow-moving snake with a flattened, upturned "nose.
Eastern Hog-nosed Snake (Heterodon platirhinos)
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Eastern Hog-nosed Snake
Heterodon platirhinos
Known from Barnstable, Bristol, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Plymouth, and Worcester counties.
Eastern Hog-nosed Snake Heterodon platirhinos. Uncommon to rare in many places where formerly common. Statewide in distribution. Often called “spreading adder,' this familiar snake is apparently declining for unknown reasons.
A Plains Hog-nosed Snake was collected in 1946 from La Crosse County. This species occurs in northwestern and west-central Illinois, and just across the Mississippi River from La Crosse in Minnesota, ...
Other Names
Eastern Hog-nosed Snake, Spreading Adder, Black Adder, Black Blowing Viper, Black Hog-nosed Snake
Size
length 50cm - 115cm. average 71cm. Females are larger than males ...
Range: This hog-nosed snake has an immense range. It may be found along the Atlantic seacoast from central New England to the southern tip of Florida and then westward to central Texas and central Minnesota.
Herpetology students studying an Eastern Hog-nosed Snake
Group of Herpetology students reviewing preserved turtles
Ornithology class reviewing stuffed bird specimens ...
Eastern box turtle eggs are preyed upon by snakes such as scarletsnakes (Cemophora coccinea), hog-nosed snakes (Heterodon spp.), common kingsnakes (Lampropeltis getula), pinesnakes (Pituophis melanoleucus), and eastern ratsnakes (Elaphe obsoleta), ...
Leioheterodon madagascariensis
Madagascar Hog-nosed Snake
Lepidodactylus (Indo-Pacific Geckos)
Lepidodactylus lugubris
Mourning Gecko ...
Tuberville, T. D., J. R. Bodie, J. B. Jensen, L. LaClaire, and J. W. Gibbons. 2000. Apparent decline of the southern hog-nosed snake, Heterodon simus. Journal of the Elisa Mitchell Scientific Society 116:19-40.
North American Racer (Blue racer) *RSG
Northern water snake
Plains garter snake
Plains hog-nosed snake *RSG
Ratsnake *RSG
Redbelly snake
Ringneck snake
Smooth green snake (Grass snake)
Western Fox snake ...
Adult can usually recover from the effects of its bite. In Africa are found the related puff and night adder. The names puff adder and spreading adder are sometimes applied to the harmless hog-nosed snake of North America .
 See also: Snake, Hog, Eastern Hog-nosed Snake, Racer, Water Snake
  
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