Rhinocheilus lecontei (Longnose Snake)
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LONGNOSE
SNAKE Rhinocheilus lecontei Baird & Girard, 1853
STATUS: Rare
LOCALITIES OBSERVED: Hood
Co.: 5.6 mi SW of Cresson
on US 377; Parker Co.: 6 mi S of Weatherford on Tx 171, 3.5 mi NW of Cresson on Tx
171, and Rio Brazos Estates S of Weatherford;
Tarrant Co.: Boaz
Golf Course, Benbrook-Aledo Rd, near Benbrook Lake dam, and 4.8 mi SE of
Wheatland; Wise Co.:
7 mi N of Decatur
DOCUMENTED COUNTIES: Hood,
Johnson, Parker, Somervell, Tarrant, and Wise
HABITAT: Fort Worth
Prairie, Western Cross Timbers, Brazos River Bottoms, and Rolling Plains
SUBSPECIES: Texas
Longnose Snake (R. l. tesselatus Garman, 1883)
COMMENTS: R.
l. tesselatus should be much more common than these observations
indicate in the western part of the Metroplex.
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