The western diamondback lives in the southwestern United States and Mexico. The eastern diamondback lives in the southeastern United States. To view a range map of the two species click on this link.
The eastern diamondback is found from coastal NC to Louisiana, the western is found from eastern Texas and Oklahoma to southern California. Neither species is found in Canada.
There are 2 types of diamondback rattlesnakes the eastern and the western diamondback. The Eastern Diamondback is found in the southeastern United States from southeastern North Carolina, including Florida and The Florida Keys. It is also found along the Gulf Coast in Southern Mississippi through SE Louisiana. Found in the Southwestern United States and in Mexico. It is found in central Arkansas and SE California.
A diamond back rattle snake lives in Southwest
The eastern diamondback is a snake of coastal plain forests, from North Carolina to Louisiana.
The western diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox) lives in the deserts and semi-deserts of the western United States.
Western diamondback rattlesnakes are found in the southwestern United States and Mexico. Eastern Diamondbacks are native to the southeastern United States.
The eastern diamondback is found in the southeastern states of the United States and the western diamondback's range is in the southwestern states.
food water and oxygen
The western diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox) lives in the deserts in the western United States.
The habitat of the rattlesnake is restricted to the western hemisphere - the Americas.
Western Diamondback Rattlesnake.The western diamondback rattlesnake.The Western Diamondback Rattlesnake. The genus Crotalus refers to rattlesnakes, and the genus Sistrurus to pygmy rattlesnakes, differentiated by size and 9 large scales on the top of their head.The Western Diamondback Rattlesnake. The genus Crotalus refers to rattlesnakes, and the genus Sistrurus to pygmy rattlesnakes, differentiated by size and 9 large scales on the top of their head.
They do not live underground but will seek shelter there from intense heat or cold.
Eastern diamondback rattlesnakes do not live in the desert. Western diamondbacks do.
Rattlesnakes use their fangs and venom as a defense.
No, diamondback rattlesnakes prefer the warmer deserts of the southwest and do not live in Montana.
rattlesnakes live solitary
Both the eastern and western diamondback rattlesnakes are known to live in excess of 20 years if they survive the first few months after birth when they are especially vulnerable to predation.
Western diamondbacks are found only in North America, in the United States and Mexico.
hawks, bald eagles, roadrunners, and wild turkeys
Rattlesnakes have lungs and gas exchange occurs there.