Snakes in the Desert Scrub Biomes of the Southwestern United States

McKeever, Robert W.

Desert Herp, Inc.

P.O. Box 60091

Boulder City, Nevada 89006 USA

Data collected by way of opportunistic road-cruising over nearly two decades offer comparisons of the snake assemblages detected in the Desert Scrub biomes (Brown, 1994) of the Chihuahuan Desert of New Mexico and Texas, the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, and the Mojave Desert of Arizona and Nevada.

Accepted Abstracts

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