The Western Diamondback comes equipped with a spade-shaped head, a fiendish fang and venom system, elliptical pupils and heat-sensing facial pits. It has reserve fangs to replace any which break off in a victim. The venom causes extensive tissue damage, bleeding and swelling in humans.
There are no poisonous snakes in the Texas Panhandle. However, there are two species of venomous snakes - the prairie rattlesnake and the western diamondback rattlesnake.
Western diamondback rattlesnake - crotalus atrox.Eastern diamondback rattlesnake - crotalus adamanteus.
Eukaryote
Animalia
not poisonous enough to kill you but poisonous enough to make you ill
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.
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The western diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox) lives in the deserts in the western United States.
There are two species, the eastern diamondback, and the western diamondback.
Crotalus atrox is the western diamondback rattlesnake.
The western diamondback rattlesnake.
Western diamondback rattlesnake.