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Please help ID this snake!
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by mhutch on March 1, 2006
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I don't have a pic. It was, guessing, newborn@10"-12". Alsmost black head, dark brown body, black/brown spots that looked like eyes running 6" down body. Had a white streak behind its head. Its head did not taper cleanly into its body, nor was it a perfect triangle. The scales on the top sides of the head were larger than the others. I could not see its eye well enough to notice if it had a slit or not. Please email me at jmhutch002@yahoo.com if you can help me. This snake was ready to strike my 3yo and if it is a baby then more are probably around. Tahnk you.
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by mhutch on March 1, 2006
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Central Alabama.
I also looked on another website for the shape of the head. It appearred to be the shape of a Pygmy Rattlesnake.
Thank you for your help.
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by mhutch on March 1, 2006
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The spots pattern was like this snake's http://www.venomousreptiles.org/libraries/showfilepage/444?offset=38 . But the snake was a darker brown and the spots were black/brown.
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by toddg on March 1, 2006
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The snake in the picture is, I believe, a "twin spot" rattlesnake although the one in the picture is darker than the ones I've seen.
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by LarryDFishel on March 1, 2006
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The size, the black head, white streak and spots only part way down the body made me think of the brownsnake I mentioned above, but on second thought I'm not sure what you mean when you say the spots look like eyes. Could you explain that in a much detail as you can, including the shape (round, oval, diamond shaped) placement (one row or two (I assume two from the pic you posted))? Were the spots a single color or did you mean that there was a different color of central spot that made it them look like eyes? I know this may be more than you remember from looking at it for a few seconds, but without a picture, the more detail we can get the better.
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by toddg on March 1, 2006
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I know this is a stupid question, but did it have a rattle? The head scales being larger than the rest of the body would make it either a pigmy or a massasauga. I don't believe however, that you have massasaugas in Alabama. I could be wrong though.
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by mhutch on March 1, 2006
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The spots were 2 together all the same uniform dark black/brown color. No "eye" spots. As if you took paint, dabbed your index and middle finger tips in it then tapped the body and with about 1/4-1/2" space in between the rows. There were several in a row, like this:
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<1/4"-1/2" space between each row.
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by mhutch on March 1, 2006
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No it didn't have a rattle. My husband said that if it was a baby, then it may not have a rattle; they get their first segment when they first shed. Now that I think about it, the tail got lighter in color as it went further down.
Thank you again so much for your help. I want to know what this snake is so if one like it should bite one of my girls and can't take it to the ER, I will know what to tell them. No I didn't kill it because I heard my Bio/Zoology teacher saying,"If you don't need to kill it, don't!" Otherwise, I'd have a picture.
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