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Heterodon platirhinos, commonly known as the eastern hog-nosed snake, spreading adder, or deaf adder, is a harmless colubrid species endemic to North America. No subspecies are currently recognized.
Habitat. Eastern hognose snakes are mostly found in areas with dry, sandy, or mixed sandy soils. They are often found in grassy fields, fields that contain crops, and along woodland edges. When found along woodland edges, they are mostly found in thinly wooded pine and/or hardwood areas.
Three species are currently recognized. [2] Members of the genus are commonly known as hognose snakes, hog-nosed snakes, [3] North American hog-nosed snakes, [2] and colloquially puff adders[4] (though they should not be confused with the venomous African vipers of the genus Bitis).
9 mar 2017 · We conducted a use-availability analysis to investigate patterns of microhabitat selection using a subset of snake locations. We conducted a compositional analysis of habitat selection at multiple spatial scales within home ranges using a high-resolution (1-m pixel size) vegetation cover map of the study area.
Heterodon platirhinos, commonly known as the eastern hog-nosed snake, spreading adder, or deaf adder, is a harmless colubrid species endemic to North America. No subspecies are currently recognized.
There is a correlation between locations of large toad populations and habitats of hognose snakes. Hognose snakes also hibernate in small mammal burrows or burrows dug themselves which loosens the soil and also can provide other organisms shelter in the future.
The western hognose snake occurs from southern Canada throughout the United States to northern Mexico. It frequents areas with sandy or gravelly soils, including prairies, river floodplains, scrub and grasslands, semi-deserts, and some semiagricultural areas. [1]
