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SONORAN SHOVEL-NOSED SNAKE
Chionactis palarostris
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DESCRIPTION:
A small (up to 430 mm or 17" in total length) snake with 20 or fewer black bands on a cream to light yellow background. Only the anterior-most 1 to 5 black bands do not cross the belly. Between the black bands are soft-edged, red saddles.
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SONORAN WHIPSNAKE Coluber bilineatus
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DESCRIPTION:
A long (up to 1,778 mm or 70" in total length), slender snake with blue-gray to gray-green coloration on the neck grading to yellow-green at mid body and gray-brown toward the tail.
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STRIPED WHIPSNAKE Coluber taeniatus
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DESCRIPTION:
A long (up to 1,652 mm or 65" in total length), slender, dark brown, gray, or black snake with a prominent light stripe running the length of the body along each upper side.
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SONORAN LYRESNAKE
Trimorphodon lambda
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DESCRIPTION:
A medium sized (up to 1,026 mm or 40" in total length) light gray-brown to gray snake with a prominent dark brown lyre-shaped marking on the top of the head and a dark bar crossing the top of the head between the eyes. There are fewer than 30 (an average of 24) dark, orange-brown, jagged-edged blotches on the back.
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SONORAN CORALSNAKE
Micruroides euryxanthus
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DESCRIPTION:
A small (up to 615 mm or 24" in total length), slender, brightly-colored snake with red, yellow or cream, and black rings that completely encircle the body.
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SPECKLED RATTLESNAKE
Crotalus mitchellii
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DESCRIPTION:
A large rattlesnake (up to 1,295 mm or 51" in total length excluding rattle) with extremely variable coloration. Specimens from the majority if its range in Arizona are rusty tan or dull pinkish-brown.
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Storeria dekayi texana - Texas Brownsnake
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DESCRIPTION:
The Texas Brown Snake is a very common snake found throughout Harris County, and is highly variable in color, ranging from browns to tans and even brick reds. The color of Texas Brown Snakes is fairly even, though, with the exception of a faint lighter stripe down the middle of the back.
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