The Great Basin rattlesnake (Crotalus lutosus) [3] is a venomous pit viper species found in the Great Basin region of the United States. [4] The Great basin rattlesnake was first formally named by Laurence Monroe Klauber in 1930 as a subspecies of Crotalus confluentus (now known as Crotalus viridis). [5] .

The Great Basin Rattlesnake is light brown or gray with a tapering row of brownish blotches down the midline of the back. Scales are large and keeled (not flat and smooth) in 25-27 rows. Their range is from southeast Oregon, southern Idaho, and northeast California, to Nevada, western Utah, and northwest Arizona.

2024年4月25日 · The Great Basin rattlesnake is a venomous pit viper species found in the Great Basin region of the United States. The heavy-bodied snake has a large triangular head, a thin neck, and a rattle at the end of its tail created by loose interlocking hollow segments.

The Great Basin rattlesnake (Crotalus lutosus) is a venomous pit viper species found in the United States. It was first formally named by Laurence Monroe Klauber in 1930 as a subspecies of Crotalus confluentus (now known as Crotalus viridis).

2023年5月11日 · Great Basin rattlesnakes (Crotalus viridis lutosus) are the only venomous reptiles in most of the Great Basin desert. They are best identified by their blunt, rattle-tipped tail & thick, stocky bodies.

The Great Basin Rattlesnake is a light brown snake with darker spots running down the middle of it’s back. They can come in shades of brown, gray, olive, and yellow. Like most other rattlesnakes found in Norther America, they have a thick body, the characteristic arrow shaped head, and a rattle on the end of its tail.

2024年3月18日 · Great Basin rattlesnakes (Crotalus lutosus) are endemic to North America’s largest desert, the Great Basin. As gape-limited ambush predators, Great Basin rattlesnakes feed primarily on small mammals, lizards, and the occasional bird.

This large rattlesnake can reach up to 48 inches in length and resides in many of the western states along the Great Basin in dry and barren habitats. It is distinctly blotched, typically with a banded tail before the rattle.

The Great Basin rattlesnake is a subspecies of the western rattlesnake. Here in the Truckee Meadows, Great Basin rattlesnakes have been observed at Mayberry Park, Hidden Valley Regional Park, Huffaker Park, and Washoe Lake State Park.

It is the only rattlesnake species in the region north of Washington County and west of the Wasatch Plateau. It inhabits Great Basin desertscrub, arid and semiarid foothills, semidesert shrublands, rocky canyons, and pinyon-juniper woodlands.