can i have a ID

[thefishofdoom]

ya its a rattle snake but what type i thinking dimond back but i dont know. just caught him the other night and i will relocate him further into the woods later on.

 

[davo]

no idea. awesome! whered you find it, too near the home?

 

[thefishofdoom]

i was riding my bike at like 7:00 and he was in the middle of the road where every one walks so i tought i get him out of the way so i took him home and put him in a cage for a little while

 

[thefishofdoom]

im between western rattle snake and dimondback rattle snake

 

[Ash]

nice catch lol I wouldnt have picked it up o__o I woulda been scared it bite me cuz I dunno ne thing bout snakes haha. Its cool looking though =)

 

[thefishofdoom]

heres a captur pic

 

[lil_blue]

proud to present you with the *official* id...

drumroll...

you have a western rattlesnake, it is not a diamondback (note the striped, not diamonds all the way down) it is not a prairie ( once again note the patterns)

here are all pit vipers (such as rattlers) found in the us

http://enature.com/fieldguides/view_default.asp?curGroupID=7&source=&parkid=&fromWhere=&searchText=&allSpecies=&shapeID=1060&lshapeID=0&curAbbr=&lgFromWhere=&curPageNum=1&lastView=default&lastGroup=7&lastRegion=&lastFilter=4&lastShapeName=&trackType=&curRegionID=&size=&habitat=&fruit=&color=&sortBy=family&viewType=default&curFamilyID=625&regionSelect=All+regions&regionZIP=

 

[DeLgAdO]

i hope you know what the **** your doing boi

 

[DeLgAdO]

proud to present you with the *official* id...

drumroll...

you have a western rattlesnake, it is not a diamondback (note the striped, not diamonds all the way down) it is not a prairie ( once again note the patterns)

here are all pit vipers (such as rattlers) found in the us

http://enature.com/fieldguides/view_default.asp?curGroupID=7&source=&parkid=&fromWhere=&searchText=&allSpecies=&shapeID=1060&lshapeID=0&curAbbr=&lgFromWhere=&curPageNum=1&lastView=default&lastGroup=7&lastRegion=&lastFilter=4&lastShapeName=&trackType=&curRegionID=&size=&habitat=&fruit=&color=&sortBy=family&viewType=default&curFamilyID=625&regionSelect=All+regions&regionZIP=

which rattle snake species causes nucrosis(sp?)

i remeber on one episode of the croc hunter he caught a rattle snake in the US, said that if you where bitten by this particular snake the wound would basically rot.

 

[guppy]

Several in the southern US through SA have necrotic plus hemolytic venom. I tyhink the one Steve Irwin was playing with was a Mojave.
I agree that the one FOD caught is one of the several sub-species of the western rattle snake, this one is (I think) the Southern Pacific Western Rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis helleri) here is a pic of a young one caught near San Diego from the www.snakeguys.com site.
Don't get bit, the vemon causes extreme tissue damage and swelling, check this site for views of bites http://images.google.com/imgres?img...talus+viridis+helleri&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&sa=N