Aruba Island rattlesnake  (Crotalus unicolor)

Range

As its name suggests, this species is found on Aruba Island, located off the coast of Venezuela. The island has an area of only 12 square kilometres (2).

View a distribution map for this species at UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Habitat

Aruba Island is volcanic and the environment is rocky, dry and covered with cactus scrub and thorny plants (4).

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