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Mexican Hog-nosed Snake
Heterodon kennerlyi Kennicott, 1860

Current SSAR Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Kennerly's Hog-nose Snake (Heterodon simus kennerlyi: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Southwestern Hog-nosed Snake (Heterodon nasicus kennerlyi: Schmidt, Karl Peterson and D. D. Davis. 1941. Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada. C.P. Putnam and Sons, New York. 365pp.); Southwestern Hog-nosed Snake (Heterodon nasicus kennerlyi: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
The Reptile Database
  
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iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1860 Kennicott, Robert. Descriptions of new species of North American serpents in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 12():328-338
2003 Smith, Hobart M., David Chiszar, Curtis M. Eckerman, and Harlan D. Walley. The taxonomic status of the Mexican Hognose Snake Heterodon kennerlyi Kennicott (1860). Journal of Kansas Herpetology (5):17-20

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