Hognose snake is a common name for several unrelated species of snakes with upturned snouts, classified in two colubrid snake families and one pseudoxyrhophiid snake family.
They include the following genera:
Heterodon, which occur mainly in the United States and northern Mexico
Leioheterodon, the hognose snakes native to Madagascar
Lystrophis, the South American hognose snakes.
The North American Heterodon species are known for their habit of thanatosis: playing dead when threatened.
Hognose snake is a common name for several unrelated species of snakes with upturned snouts, classified in two colubrid snake families and one pseudoxyrhophiid...
old-fields and forest edges. Like most of the genus Heterodon, the Eastern Hognose Snake prefers dry conditions with loose soil for burrowing purposes. These...
The western hognose snake (Heterodon nasicus) is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to North America. There are three...
Leioheterodon madagascariensis, the Malagasy, Madagascar or Madagascan giant hognose (snake), is a harmless species of pseudoxyrhophiid snake endemic to the...
species are currently recognized. Members of the genus are commonly known as hognose snakes, hog-nosed snakes, North American hog-nosed snakes, and colloquially...
recognized. Common names include Malagasy hognose snakes, Malagasy brown snakes and Malagasy menarana snakes. Speckled hognose snake, Leioheterodon geayi (Mocquard...
pastures, dry river floodplains, fields, and pine plantation. The Southern hognose snake is found on the coastal plain of the southeastern United States from...
South American hognose snakes, which while similar in appearance to North American (Heterodon) and Madagascan (Leioheterodon) hognoses, are not closely...
Heterodon kennerlyi, also known as the Mexican hognose snake, is a snake of the colubrid family. It is found in southern Texas in the United States and...
and is only mildly venomous.: p.53 Two kinds of non-venomous snake, the hognose snakes and the striped keelback, also rear upwards and produce hoods but...
Xenodon dorbignyi, the South American hognose snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to southern South America....
Xenodon semicinctus, the ringed hognose snake, is a species of snake in the family, Colubridae. It is found in Argentina and Bolivia. Giraudo, A. (2017)...
Common names: hognose pitvipers. Porthidium is a genus of venomous pitvipers found in Mexico and southward to northern South America. The name is derived...
Apostolepis lineata, the hognose lineate blackhead, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. It is endemic to Brazil. Silveira, A.L., Prudente...
Xenodon histricus, Jan's hognose snake, is a species of snake in the family, Colubridae. It is found in Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. Cacciali...
snake: Vipera berus, a viper species found in Europe and Asia Eastern hognose snake, a basically non-venomous snake found in the United States Or the...
research has suggested the South American hognoses to possess slightly more potent venom than the North American hognoses. In the Old World, none of the coral...
Common names: Dunn's hognosed pitviper. Porthidium dunni is a species of venomous pitviper in the family Viperidae. The species is endemic to Mexico. There...
dub. Nure-Onna (濡れ女, Nure-Onna) is a Gifter whose Hognose Snake SMILE gives her the neck of a hognose snake. Nure-Onna is voiced by Yūki Yamamoto in the...
Leioheterodon geayi, commonly known as Geay's hognose snake, the Madagascan speckled hognose snake, and the speckled hognose snake, is a species of mildly venomous...
Common names: Yucatán hognosed pitviper. Porthidium yucatanicum is a venomous pitviper species found in Mexico. No subspecies are currently recognized...
Leioheterodon modestus, also known as the blonde hognose snake, is a species of harmless, rear-fanged (opisthoglyphous) snake in the family Pseudoxyrhophiidae...
in construction and demolition work. This type of saw, also known as a hognose , recip saw , sawsaw, has a large blade resembling that of a jigsaw and...
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