Today's photo is "Baird's Patchnose Snake".
I took this photo at a zoo in east Texas.
Salvadora Snakes
- The Baird's Patchnose Snake is a species of snake known as the Salvadora snakes.
- These snakes are known as primitive snakes and have distinctive scales on the tip of their snout.
- Thier are six different primary species of Salvadora snakes and seven subspecies.
- They eat small invertebrates like ant and termite larvae.
- The Salvadora snake is found in the western US and Mexico
- The Salvadore snake can grow up to 103 inches in length.
- The species was first identified in 1853.
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