The Long nosed Snake is a tricolor snake. This snake comes in two color variations, black and cream with little red and the cream and black and red with very cream in the red. Its stomach is cream colored. This snake also has a pointed snout. When the snake is young and has minimal red, it can be mistaken for a California King snake. The Long-nosed Snake (Rhinocheilus lecontei) is a species of non-venomous colubrid snake.
Ten Facts about Long-nosed Snake
- Size: 18.9-29.5 in (48-75 cm).
- The long nosed snake stays very active at night. It hides in rocks.
- When you try to captured it, it hides its head, coils up his body, vibrates its tail, and a fluid is ejected from it .
- Long-nosed snakes are shy, nocturnal burrowing snakes. They spend most of their time buried underground.
- They feed on lizards, amphibians, and sometimes smaller snakes and infrequently rodents.
- They are oviparous, laying clutches of 4-9 eggs in the early summer, which hatch out in the late summer or early fall.
- Long-nosed Snakes inhabit dry, often rocky, grassland areas.
- They founds in northern Mexico from San Luis Potosí to Chihuahua, and into the southwestern United States, in California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, and Texas.
- Life span likely would approach 8 years.
- They are vulnerable to hawks and owls, larger mammalian predators (foxes, raccoons, skunks, cats), and (inevitably) automobiles and unappreciative humans.
