File:Rattle-snake with section of rattle and tooth, 1731 Wellcome L0035356.jpg

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Rattle-snake with section of rattle and tooth, 1731
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Rattle-snake with section of rattle and tooth, 1731
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Illustration showing a rattle-snake (Vipera caudisona Americana). Inset are the rattle with 24 joints, a cross-section of the rattle, and a tooth or fang through which venom passes when the snake bites its prey. The colour of the head of this rattle-snake is brown, the eye red, the upper part of the body a brownish-yellow, transversely marked with irregular broad black stripes. The rattle is of a brown colour.

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Keywords: Wildlife; Flora; Snakes; Rattle snake; Nature; Americas; Snake; Natural History; Fauna; America
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