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Baja California Ratsnake - Bogertophis rosaliae

Brillante Arenicola

(Mocquard, 1899)

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Very thin adult, Baja California. © Gary Nafis. Specimen courtesy of Victor Valasquez, El Serpentario de La Paz
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Adult, Baja California © Jason Jones Adult, Baja California © Patrick Briggs Adult, Baja California
© William Flaxington
Specimen courtesy of El Serpentario de La Paz
Baja California Rattlesnake Baja California Rattlesnake Baja Rat Snake
Adult, Loreto, Baja California Sur © Stuart Young Adult, Baja California, © Dick Bartlett

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Adult, San Ignacio, Baja California Sur © Stuart Young Adult, near Loreto, Baja California Sur
© William Flaxington
     
Juveniles
  Baja Rat Snake  
  Juvenile, Baja California, © Dick Bartlett  
     
Habitat
Carmen Island Zebra-tailed Lizard habitat Carmen Island Zebra-tailed Lizard habitat  
Habitat, Loreto, Baja California Sur
© Stuart Young
Habitat, near Loreto, Baja California Sur
© William Flaxington
 
     
References:

San Diego Natural History Museum

Grismer, L. Lee. Amphibians and Reptiles of Baja California, Including Its Pacific Islands and the Islands in the Sea of Cortés. The University of California Press, 2002.

McPeak, Ron H. Amphibians and Reptiles of Baja California. Sea Challengers, 2000.

Samuel M. McGinnis and Robert C. Stebbins. Peterson Field Guide to Western Reptiles & Amphibians. 4th Edition. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2018.

Stebbins, Robert C. A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians. 3rd Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003.

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