Southwest Reptiles and Amphibians
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Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnake - Crotalus pyrrhus
(Cope, 1867 “1866”)| Species Description |
Yellow = range of C. pyrrhus
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| Adult, Yavapai County, Arizona | Adult, Yavapai County, Arizona | Adult, Clark County, Nevada © Mark Gary |
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| Adults, Yuma County, Arizona © Gary Nafis Specimens courtesy of Marty Feldner | ||
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| Adult, Yuma County, Arizona © Gary Nafis Specimens courtesy of Marty Feldner |
Adult, Yuma County, Arizona © Brian Harris | |
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| Adult, Yuma County, Arizona © Kenny Elliott | Adult, Yuma County, Arizona © Michael Clarkson |
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| A "blue" adult from Mariposa County, Arizona. © Kenny Elliott | ||
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| Habitat, Maricopa County, Arizona |
Habitat, Yavapai County, Arizona |
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| Short Videos of the Species | ||
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| A coiled Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnake rattles, uncoils, and crawls into a bush. (Some loud background noise has been deleted in the middle of the video.) | A Southwestsern Speckled Rattlesnake crawls across a road and up into a bush on an Imperial County, California mountain. | A Southwestsern Speckled Rattlesnake from up in a bush on an Imperial County, California mountain. |
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| A large adult speckled rattlesnake rattling and crawling away on a windy night in San Diego County, California. | ||
Southwest Reptiles & Amphibians
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