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Red Diamond Rattlesnake
- Colouration
- Ground-colour dull, rusty red; the diamond markings are of a deeper red, narrowly margined with dull white.
- Dimensions
- Much like the typical form. It grows to a considerable size though not equal to the length of the largest Texas specimens of the typical atrox. The writer had a female specimen from San Diego County, California, that was five and a half feet long. Of four other specimens received from the same districts two were under four feet, one measured four feet three inches and the other, four feet eight inches.
- Distribution
- Arid regions of southern California and the peninsula of Lower California generally; southwestern Arizona.
- Habits
- Like the typical form.
The Red Diamond Rattlesnake differs from the typical form only in the distinctly reddish hue of the former.
The tail is in marked contrast to the red of the body. It is chalky-white, with vivid, black rings.