Rubber Boa Snake Montana

They are fairly small snakes growing between one and two feet in lengths.

Rubber boa snake montana.

Like those snakes it kills prey by squeezing it to death with its muscular body and swallows the meal whole. Meet the rubber boa. The rubber boa snake could not have been given a more appropriate name as its loose and wrinkly skin does give the feeling that it is made of rubber. The rubber boa has retained the club like tail of its erycine ancestors.

Amphibian and reptile survey on selected montana bureau of reclamation impoundments. The reason it appears rubbery is because of its loose skin with hundreds of tiny smooth scales that gives the reptile a smooth glossy appearance. One of the earliest of the boa species even older than the much larger boa constrictor this small reptile is found widely across north america. Use the promo code animalwonders during the sign up process t.

Montana only has ten native snake species namely the common gartersnake thamnophis sirtalis gophersnake pituophis catenifer north american racer coluber constrictor northern rubber boa charina bottae plains gartersnake thamnophis radix. It often dens on south facing slopes in areas with rock outcrops. The rubber boa is a snake that actually looks like a long elongated rubber tube. The rubber boa s common name comes from its rubbery appearance the result of small smooth scales and somewhat loose skin.

Montana department of fish wildlife and parks nongame program. Leave a comment cancel reply. Snakes play in our environment and to be safe around snakes. Montana s rubber boa is the northernmost relative of the giant boa constrictor and anaconda of south america.

A new record for the rubber snake charina bottae. The southern rubber boa is found only in a few disjunct areas of california. Of the ten snake species that live in montana only the prairie rattle snake is venomous. The northern rubber boa charina bottae range is limited to the western one third of montana.

Rattlesnake bites are extremely rare. Also known as the western rattlesnake the prairie rattler is found in open arid country and ponderosa pine savannahs.