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Species Information

Kingdom: Animalia
  Phylum: Craniata
    Class: Reptilia
      Order: Squamata
        Family: Viperidae
          Genus: Crotalus
            Species: willardi obscurus

New Mexico Ridgenose Rattlesnake - Crotalus willardi obscurus

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Species Extent (New Mexico)

General Description

New Mexico Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake (Crotalus willardi obscurus) is a small (0.62 m total length) rattlesnake that is only found in the mountains of far southwestern New Mexico, neighboring Arizona, and northern Mexico. They live primarily at high elevations in pine-oak woodlands, pine-fir forests, and pinyon-juniper woodlands. Their gestation period is 13 months, at which point they give birth to live young.

Status

Global Rank: G5T1T2

State Rank: S1

State Status: E

Federal Status: Listed Threatened [LT]

USFS Status:

BLM Status:

SWAP Status: SGCN

NMRP Strategy Status:

Observations in Natural Heritage New Mexico Database

Number of Subpopulations: 10

Number of Mapped Locations: 833

Number of Observations: 884

Observation date range: 01-01-1901 to 10-05-2019

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