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need snake id
tazzer
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anyone know what kind of snake this might be,A friend at work caught him at WORK yikes anyways he took pic with his cell phone so it hard to really tell I was thinking maybe a ratsnake but his head is thoughing from the shape of it in one pic it looks like vemon pockets
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But look at this page.
http://www.discoverlife.org/20/q?search=Serpentes
There is a link for ID. It gives you choices on specifics like ccolor and scales. By making choices you can tell what you have.
This looks kind of like it.
I cant belive he caught it with out knowing what it was wish I could have seen it up close myself
Iv caught rat snakes that look kinda like it and have caught them up to 5' long also
just to hard to tell in the pic.
This one is a 30" one. looks real close.
i dont think its head is as wide as it looked
quote:Originally posted by dnelson457
where you at Florida. Just saw Texas close enough[:o)]
This one is a 30" one. looks real close.
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dimond back water snake
Those last pictures look like a Brown Water Snake.
kinda thought that maybe to only did not know why he would be around our office but we have had a ton of rain [:0][:D]
Pictures are not clear enough. Ask him if there is a hole between the eyes and nose.
I would but this was this morning adn hes sleep snice then he was on teh grav. shift and was leaving when he found it by the steps
I came in this afternoon and was told about it and text him to send me the pic. snice he did not know what kind it was.
Non-poisonous. I won't call it "harmless" because it can and will bite the bejabbers out of you, and crap all over you in the bargain. They are very unpleasant snakes to handle. We have jillions of them around here.
http://www.geocities.com/onias_2000/diamondbackwatersnake.html
Folks around here call them "water moccasins" and are generally scared to death of them. Leastwise the uneducated folks are. Give them room, that's all they need.
You Flarda boys included a picture of an Eastern Cottonmouth. We have the Western Cottonmouth in Texas, not as vividly marked as its Florida cousin.
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You're welcome. HeDog wasn't around, and someone had to take up the slack.
Natrix rhombifera rhombifera. Diamond-backed Water Snake.
Non-poisonous. I won't call it "harmless" because it can and will bite the bejabbers out of you, and crap all over you in the bargain. They are very unpleasant snakes to handle. We have jillions of them around here.
http://www.geocities.com/onias_2000/diamondbackwatersnake.html
Folks around here call them "water moccasins" and are generally scared to death of them. Leastwise the uneducated folks are. Give them room, that's all they need.
You Flarda boys included a picture of an Eastern Cottonmouth. We have the Western Cottonmouth in Texas, not as vividly marked as its Florida cousin.
Who the heck calls anything but a Cottonmouth a Water moccasin?
People who don't know any better. To a lot of people, any aquatic snake is a water moccasin. If it isn't in the water, it must be a copperhead or a rattler.
I had a bozo wave me down one day not long ago, to report that he had a copperhead cornered on his driveway, and he was an expert on copperheads, since he had once been bitten by one. I looked at the snake and identified it as a Lined snake Lined Snake. (Tropidoclonion lineatum lineatum)
I told him I must be about to die, and I picked it up. I left him standing there with his mouth open and removed the snake several blocks away and released it.