Nice male eastern hognose encountered crossing a ranch road NW of Boerne, Texas about 5:30 pm today...temp 85 degrees. We're on the western edge of platyrhinos distribution here, but he looks fat and healthy nonetheless....
Brad Chambers
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Western eastern!
brhaco
May 04, 2007 06:56 PM
Replies (8)
chrish
May 04, 2007 07:39 PM
That's odd. Most of the Easterns I have found in the hill country were much darker than that. I mostly found them around Fredericksburg, but that isn't far from Boerne.
Nice snake.
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas
brhaco
May 04, 2007 07:55 PM
Chris,
This guy was about a mile west of Boerne city lake in an area of cedar/oak scrub (even saw scrub jays nearby).
Have you found any nasicus in Kendall county?
Brad Chambers
chrish
May 07, 2007 01:34 PM
>>Chris,
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>>This guy was about a mile west of Boerne city lake in an area of cedar/oak scrub (even saw scrub jays nearby).
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>>Have you found any nasicus in Kendall county?
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>>Brad Chambers
I haven't ever found nasicus in central TX. I have found them in Terrell County.
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas
kfisher29
May 04, 2007 08:11 PM
Awesome snake. Its always cool finding a hognose! Hes got a nice pattern too. Kevin
reako45
May 04, 2007 11:45 PM
Great pic. In Texas you've got both Westerns and Easterns, right? Though I keep a Western hog I'm not very well versed on their behavior in the wild, so forgive what might be a dumb question; Is there some zone, perhaps, where W's & E's intergrade?
reako45
brhaco
May 05, 2007 07:39 AM
Actually, to my knowledge platyrhinos and nasicus are not known to hybridize (and "hybrid" would be the correct term here, since the eastern and wesern hognose are seperate species, not subspecies or races of a single species). Their ranges do appear to overlap in several areas of Texas.
Brad Chambers
Tom Lott
May 05, 2007 06:21 PM
Brad,
A Boerne area herper actually reported finding a DOR Heterodon that had a black ventral surface a while back. He didn't realize what he might have had and didn't save it. So it's possible that nasicus still remains in the area.
There are very old records for H. nasicus from Bexar, Comal and Hays counties (as well as fossil records from some of the local caves). An older herper friend of mine once told me that H. nasicus could still be found in Bexar County in the 1950s, mainly in the NE portion, where Prairie Kings can yet be found.
Defeat HB 2414!
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Tom Lott
Thornscrub
bmielke
May 05, 2007 09:04 PM
Last November I found a eastern hog in Bandera county between
Tarpley and Utopia (during deer season).
