Western diamondback pics.

[jason_ladouceur]

I agree. Your absolutely right. My apologies for not doing more research before making the post. I've never been into venomous snakes so I'm not at all educated in the subject. I do however appreciate all reptiles and didn't want to see this guy/girl get hurt. Sorry for contributing to the misinformation out there. I was just excited to share some old pics that I just recently found. I will do some research and try and rename the post. If I can't do that I'll try to have it deleted. Thanks again.

There is no need to apologize. You did a great thing. I simply wanted to point out that the animal you were handling was not the animal you thought it was and provide you and any people reading this post acurate information.

You did a great thing. Saving a animal from possible harm. You obviously knew the animal was venomous so who cares about the Latin name or if you didn't title your post correctly. Some people like to nit pick and try to show off their knowledge. If you said it was a garter snake, that's different, lol. Don't waste your time doing research because somebody pointed out you misidentified the species. You saved a reptile from a most likely death. I don't recommend ever handling venomous snakes but if you felt comfortable doing it more power to you.

You think don't research and acquiring knowledge is a waste of time? Odd, what exactly about that do you find not worth time or effort?
I'm sorry but pointing out a miss labeled animal,especially a venomous one is not nit picking IMO, it's simply sharing of information. And as far as I understand it is kind of the point of this forum board. And you asked who cares about the right Latin name for the animal in question, I do, most serious Herp enthusiasts do; researchers, scientist; oh and I'd bet the attending physician in the event of a bite would be very interested in knowing the correct name of the animal that caused the bite. Although the natural habitat's of atrox and viridis don't overlap, the antivenom used is the same, and the bite treatment protocol would be basically the same. It would probably be best if they didn't have to waste anytime trying to figure how you got bit by an animal that doesn't live anywhere close to where you were bit.