Massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus)
Description: Adults 24" to 36" in length. Color light gray to grayish brown, with median row of darker blotches on back; typically with three rows of similar but smaller blotches on sides.
Massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus)
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The Massasauga is from the order Squamata. Species from this order are amphisbaenians, lizards or snakes.
Massasauga rattlesnake, Sistrurus catenatus
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Where are they found? North America ...
Food Massasaugas diets are comprised largely of small mammals, but small birds, lizards, frogs, toads, and other snakes are also consumed. While adults usually feed upon mice, small snakes are an important food item for young massasaugas.
Desert Massasauga, Buzztail
Relatives in same Genus
Western Massasauga (S. catenatus tergeminus)
Dusky Pigmy Rattlesnake (S. miliarius barbouri)
Carolina Pigmy Rattlesnake (S. miliarius miliarius)
Western Pigmy Rattlesnake (S.
Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake
Scientific Name: Sistrurus catenatus catenatus
Size: 18-40 inches (45-100 cm) in length
PA Status: Endangered Species - Only 5 known populations in PA
PAHERP Resource: Buzz in the Prairie ...
Massasaugas do not hibernate in a group like other snake species. Instead, they look for crayfish or mammal burrows, sawdust piles, or old root canals to hide alone.
Massasauga
The massasauga, Sistrurus catenatus, is a pit viper rattlesnake found primarily in the United States ...
The Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake is a venomous snake. Although smaller than the other two venomous snakes in Ohio, this rattler still is very dangerous to people and their pets.
Massasauga rattlesnake
Class: Reptilia
Status: IUCN: Least Concern; CITES: Not Listed; COSEWIC: Threatened.
Mata mata turtle ...
Massasauga *RSG
Timber Rattlesnake *RSG
Avoiding and Treating Timber Rattlesnake Bites
*RSG - Animals listed on the Rare Species Guide ...
Massasaugas typically are very sluggish and make little or no attempt to bite unless thoroughly aroused. The bite is seldom, if ever, fatal to a healthy adult.
Eastern Massasauga (melanistic phase)
Evidently both color phases of Eastern Massasaugas were common in Kennicott's time, but have become very uncommon in this area within the past 15 to 20 years.
Crotalophorus miliarus ...
Sistrurus (Massasauga and Pygmy Rattlesnakes)
Sistrurus miliarius
Pygmy Rattlesnake
Sistrurus miliarius barbouri
Dusky Pygmy Rattlesnake ...
Common Name: Eastern Massasauga
Scientific Name: Sistrurus catenatus catenatus
Wisconsin Status: Endangered Species (1975) ...
The common name "massasauga" is derived from two Indian words; together they mean "great river mouth".
Minnesota is home to 17 species of snakes, although one, the venomous massasauga (mass-as-SAU-gwa) rattlesnake has not been positively sighted in the state for many years.
The poisonous snakes in North America include the coral snake, the pit vipers, (the copperhead), rattlesnake , water moccasin, and massasauga . The Bushmaster , and the Fer-de-lance are other deadly pit vipers.
Warbler, and telemetered Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnakes. I also was a certified type II wildland
firefighter and Faller "A" Apprentice Sawyer.
Supervisor: Paul Thompson ...
Brush SW & Ferguson GW. (1986). Predation of Lark Sparrow Chondestes-Grammacus Eggs by a Massasauga Rattlesnake Sistrurus-Catenatus. Southwestern Naturalist. vol 31, no 2. p. 260-261.
Genera: Agkistrodon (Copperhead and Cottonmouth), Crotalus (Rattlesnakes), and Sistrurus (Pigmy Rattlesnakes and Massasaugas)
Southern Copperhead
Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix ...
owls (Strigiformes)
coyotes (Canis latrans)
rattlesnakes (Crotalidae)
eastern massasauga rattlesnakes (Sistrurus catenatus) ...
other harmless snakes that you may find in your yard are black rat snakes, fox snakes, hognose snakes and banded water snakes. The venomous snakes that are found in the state are: northern copperhead, timber rattlesnake, cottonmouth and massasauga ...
 See also: Snake, Rattlesnake, Reptile, Eastern Massasauga, Rat snake
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