Herpetology Question: Name that Snake

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Does anyone know the species? He's sitting across the road from our driveway and my wife is terrified of him. Yeah, that's the ticket, he scares my wife. He's HUGH and SERIES, almost three feet long!

[goat granny]

Like you sorry for his lab, but for some karma comes quick..If its not poison, leave it alone...Although here in Michigan we has the massasaga rattlesnake (small snake but still poison) can kill a child, but its on the environazi list and if you kill one, its SSS. Every couple of years some child dies from its bite...

[Borax Queen]

HEEHEEHEEE!!!

[trebb]

Bill Clinton sex toy - just hold him by the ears and watch Billy go into action...

[GOYAKLA]

In iraq and other ME countries they are named MO-Cassins, after that low down snake Mohammed! Similar to Alla-Gators, for Allah, the same reason!

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

:D

[cva66snipe]

The only resemblance that snake bears to a copperhead is that it is also shaped like a snake. Copperheads don’t get that big or dark. Just leave him alone. He is eating your mice and other vermin for you.

The can get that big and depending on time of year etc they can be dark. But the body doesn't look right nor the skin pattern. I can't see enough of the head and that is the real make or break in determination. I about stepped on a three footer in my gravel parking area of my driveway. I shot the snake after a good suspicion it was a Copperhead then myself and my dad confirmed it with closer detailed exam postmortem.

The snake I killed was bigger than any Copperhead I had seen in East Tennessee but was chunky body, shortened blunt tail, triangular head, with almost Rattler type patterns, and fangs.

The hardest poisonous snake to determine in the U.S. is a Cottonmouth. One in Arkansas will vary greatly from say one in Florida in body pattern. In that respect I'm luck. None northeast of the Cumberland Plateau.

[tumblindice]

That’s a rake snake. Don’t step on him.

[LibLieSlayer]

Looks like a Cottonmouth Water Moccasin... killed a bunch of those serpents.

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

Or as Lewis Grizzard once called them, “Copper headed water rattlers”.

LLS

[LachlanMinnesota]

Obama. Don’t even touch it with a stick.

Especially if it offers you an apple.

[Bean Counter]

“What we have here, little yellow sister, is a magnificent specimen of pure Alabama Blacksnake. But it ain’t too g**damned beaucoup.”

Private Eightball
“Full Metal Jacket”

[MamaDearest]

That is a very rare snake. it is a Kenyan Death Adder. The snake can be found in Kenya, from where it has been illegally imported to Indonesia, Hawaii, Illinois, and Washington DC. the snake is a master of disguise, when coiled it’s markings all it to mimic nonvenemous snakes. Only when the death adder strikes does it’s true nature become apparent to it’s prey...by then it is too late as the snake’s bite is invariable fatal. The male of the species is generally long and thin, the female is shorter and fatter.

Good thing I didn't have a drink near my keyboard!

[JimmyMc]

Barack want to make the snake his herpetologist czar.

[goat granny]

Your lucky, I miss my first yell pulling weeds and having him scare me...once I knew where he was at I was fine. Even had a toad house he would curl up in....boo hoo he’s gone and none have come to take his place....

[2IfByC]

looks similar , color and markings. Northern water Snake

http://www.ctherpconsultant.com/images/water_snake_gmaz.jpg

[VairyAngel]

Sidewinder?

[stinkerpot65]

Looks like a moccasin to me, as well.

[Texas Songwriter]

I will tell you a story told to me by my limnology professor in graduate school. He loved to drink warm beer from the trunk of his car while he fished in the Sabine River near Orange, Texas. He was a great professor and a drunk and fishing was his passion. Often he would make friends with other fishermen. One night a very rotund man, tipping the scale at about 325, was running a trotline (fishing for catfish) He would awaken about every 2 hours to run his lines. And....he was deathly afraid of snakes. He would lay on a sleeping bag on the banks of the Sabine, and he and my professor would talk (My teacher used a rod and reel). But come 12 midnight the fat fellow would get sleepy and try to get some shut-eye. I don't remember is he had a windup clock to awaken him, but as he was arousing about 2 a.m. he felt something of his neck and face. He sat up and as he tried to gain his sensibilities a large 6 foot diamond-back water snake (Genus Natrix) grabbed him on his rosey cheek. Now the Natrix is not poisonous, but he has a row of substantial retroflexed upper and lower teeth, which grabbed very hard. As our fatman literally pulled the snake from his attachment to his face and 'flung' (yes, down here in Texas we do say flung... and we mean it). The terrified fellow screamed a cottonmouth had gotten in the face and he was going to die. He was at least 45 minutes to an hour to a hospital. He said he was screaming the entire way. He was not envenomated, but did get a serious infection.

I have seen these large Natrix eat other snakes, even other Natrix, as long ast they are.

Natrix is not aggressive, but the Cottonmouth watermouth is very agressive. Large ones can be very dangerous.

[dljordan]

“I think it’s a black racer...I think scarey but not dangerous”

Nope, it’s not a Black Racer and you can get infections from their bites.

[dljordan]

“Copperhead.”

That ain’t no Copperhead.