Any reptile identifiers out there?

[Ward Chillington]

Resurrecting a 3-year old thread to ask if anyone knows what brand of snake this might be. Best I could come up with was corn snake, but that is unsatisfyingly inconsistent with images I can find.

This fellow is about a goor ling and 1/2” diameter or so
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Based Wifey's encounter last week, I'm going with a Red Garter Snake. Kinda rare as I'm sure I you've seen the typical green and black striped ones. Take a look up on the Googles and tell me what you think.

 

[Donoroto]

Based Wifey's encounter last week, I'm going with a Red Garter Snake. Kinda rare as I'm sure I you've seen the typical green and black striped ones. Take a look up on the Googles and tell me what you think.

This guy didn’t really have prominent stripes, all the googlepix show them.

 

[Yooper]

Resurrecting a 3-year old thread to ask if anyone knows what brand of snake this might be. Best I could come up with was corn snake, but that is unsatisfyingly inconsistent with images I can find.

This fellow is about a goor ling and 1/2” diameter or so
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I can't see it very well, so if you have a better photo that would be helpful but from this angle, it looks like an Eastern rat snake, In Florida, we have a yellow (eastern) rat snake that has those long stripes. If I could see the head I could probably say definitively. There are two snakes under the umbrella Eastern rat snake, the Pantherophis alleghanienis and sometimes with the gray coloring they are called oak snakes. The Panterophis quadrivittatus has those stripes, but the ones I see in cental Florida are more yellow.

 

[Bigbre04]

all snakes are friends! they keep the bugs and rats down!

they wont bite you attack you unless you attack them!

 

[Bigbre04]

As a retired scientist that keyed-out species for a living, I really try NOT to geek people out. I would rather informally give an example of how to key-out a species. In this case, it was in PA USA, and had a lot of indicators that show it is not poisonous. This is what I passed on. Yes, there are snakes IDs that do not apply for snakes worldwide, but dang - this was PA and the list of potential snakes was limited.

but what about the native black mambas???? they have round eyes!

 

[Zambi]

but what about the native black mambas???? they have round eyes!

I don't like mamba's!

 

[Bigbre04]

I don't like mamba's!

lol but they have round eyes! and super cuddly attitudes! they just wanna be friends!

in N. America there are really not a lot of venomous snakes, especially compared to Africa, Asia, Aus. i guess there are even less in Europe. Latitude would be my guess???

 

[Sandy Feet]

We only have a few bad ones here. Most of what we get are Black Racers, and they are harmless.

 

[Donoroto]

Eastern rat snake seems to have photos very close to what I saw. The photo makes the stripes more prominent than they were.

I was certain it was harmless, and I had no intention of hurting it, was mostly just curious.

Now that copperhead from several years ago…not my friend.

 

[Daniel Parshley]

but what about the native black mambas???? they have round eyes!

If I see a Black Mamba in Georgia, I'll need to move further north. The six foot Rattlesnakes are all I can handle. FYI - The wild hogs eating the Rattlesnakes that "rattle" has led to Rattlesnakes that do not rattle. Lots of hogs at the camp and I've never seen a snake there.

 

[Yooper]

There is a guy in one of my snake facebook groups who said something like "If you see a snake and back away and leave it alone, you have a 0% chance of being bitten".

The snakes that you don't see until you step on them or get too close are the ones that would be dangerous of course. There are statistics that studied incidences of bites in the US. Something like 70% of envenomation happened when someone tried to kill or harm a venomous snake. Give them space to get away, and most people aren't bitten. Unfortunately, it's those ones you don't see that can hurt.

I saw on a snake bite group yesterday that a 12 year old girl picked up an eastern diamondback rattler, handled it, put it down, and only got bitten when she tried to shoo it away from some owlets on the ground. She got bitten on the hand.

 

[Zefram]

Late to the party, but my guess is a DeKay's brown snake. We have those in TN as well