Southern hognose snake
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Heterodon simus, commonly known as the southern hog-nosed snake, is a harmless snake species endemic to the southeastern United States. No subspecies are currently recognized.
Adult Heterodon simus
Florida red
Adult Southern Hognose Snake, H. Simus
Describes the natural history of H. simus
Karl Patterson Schmidt
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Karl Patterson Schmidt was an American herpetologist.
Southern hognose snake
…species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio Duodecima, Reformata. L. Salvius. Stockholm. 532 pp. (Coluber simus, p. 375.) Schmidt, K.P., and D. Dwight Davis. 1941. Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada. G.P. Putnam's Sons. New York. 365 pp. (Heterodon simus, pp. 116–118…
c. 1950
Schmidt in 1929 with a two-toed sloth
Schmidt died after being bitten by a juvenile boomslang snake.