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Axanthic Northern Pacific Rattlesnake

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This is probably the best picture I took at Tinley. Owned by the Wildlife Discovery Center in Lake Forest, IL.

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Wow. Living in Ca. I've seen a fair number of Northerns andtheri variety is well known but THAT is one damn fine looking animal.

Do you know anything about it's origins? Do you have any other pics? It's a true beaury.

Hmmm, I've been thinking a bit and isn't Axanthic the lack of yellow?

Wouldn't that more properly be a hyperxanthic, extra yellow, or maybe even some oddball anerythristic since there seems to be no red or orange?

It's a beauty either way.
 
Now that I look at it better it does not look like a Norther pacific at all... It looks more like a xanthic Crotalus durissus...
 
Well, blame my faulty memory and the fact that I should have double checked the name before I posted. :bandhead0 It is a Northwestern Neotropical Rattlesnake. I can post the photo of the info sheet they gave. However, I don't think I can change the thread title. It's described as the 'xanthic' phase on the infosheet given by the Discovery Center.
 
Xanthic is hi yellow, axanthic is no yellow.

The stripe on the neck did make me wonder but I figured it was just an oddball.

Still cool.
 
It is a Xanthic Crotalus simus cuminatus.

Also a northern neo tropical rattlesnake. These guys were floating around for a while a few years ago. A real cool snake but super hot. Much different venom than our North American crotalus
 
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