Rubber Boa Snake Montana

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Rubber boa snake montana. It often dens on south facing slopes in areas with rock outcrops. Snakes play in our environment and to be safe around snakes. Rattlesnake bites are extremely rare. 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 s common name comes from its rubbery appearance the result of small smooth scales and somewhat loose skin. The rubber boa has retained the club like tail of its erycine ancestors. A new record for the rubber snake charina bottae.

Leave a comment cancel reply. Montana s rubber boa is the northernmost relative of the giant boa constrictor and anaconda of south america. Montana department of fish wildlife and parks nongame program. 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.

Also known as the western rattlesnake the prairie rattler is found in open arid country and ponderosa pine savannahs. 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. Of the ten snake species that live in montana only the prairie rattle snake is venomous. The rubber boa is a primitive snake compared to its much larger relatives native to latin america which include the boa constrictor emerald tree boa and green anaconda.

The rubber boa belongs to the boa family of snakes which also includes the anaconda and reticulated pythons. Yellowstone nature notes 8 9. The rubber boa is a snake that actually looks like a long elongated rubber tube. 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.

Amphibian and reptile survey on selected montana bureau of reclamation impoundments. The southern rubber boa is found only in a few disjunct areas of california.