Snake Identification

[SpeckleBUTTCHEEKS]

Anyone know what kind of snake this is?
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[swamp snorkler]

ribbon snake?

where was it, LA? TX

http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/resource/snakes-louisiana

[Goooh]

Originally Posted by swamp snorkler

ribbon snake?

where was it, LA? TX

http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/resource/snakes-louisiana

Looks more like the Brown Snake

[Andy C]

It needs to be dead!!!

[bjhooper82]

Cotton mouth!!!!!!

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by Goooh

Looks more like the Brown Snake

I concur, looks like a brown snake, small and found in yards occasionally, the pic makes it look lot bigger than it probably is. Bout 12" long?


aka 'ground rattler'


where was this? the stripe on the back is very prominent, never seen one that distinct

[Duck Butter]

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pure Alabama black snake

[Top Dawg]

Looks like a ridge back rattler

[Texxan1]

Its a Garter snake!!!!

[swamp snorkler]

Originally Posted by Texxan1

Its a Garter snake!!!!

cOULD BE, BUT i'VE NEVER SEEN A BROWN GARTER SNAKE

[Lake Chuck Duck]

Kill dat!

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by Texxan1

Its a Garter snake!!!!

I thought that at first just by the checkered markings, but we don't have checkered garter snakes here. It would help if the location was added and a pic of the belly would clear it all up.

I am going with a Texas brown snake and Midland brown snake cross. They interbreed within a stretch of Louisiana and this looks like a good match. This snake is a small snake but looks like its trying to make itself more intimidating by flaring out to appear larger (happens when a stick is being poked at it). Still larger than most brown snakes you see and very well could be ready to have some little ones They are extremely nonaggressive and I have pics of my son with one from the yard around here somewhere. They get chopped up by lawnmowers and weedeaters all the time

[Clampy]

Cool Looking. Not every snake needs to be dead but I hate spiders so I can understand.

[nimbus73]

Called a DeKay's snake or a brown snake. usually found in your flower gardens etc around the house. Usually grow to about 12-16" long. Harmless except for scarring the begeezers out of your wife when she's pulling weeds. Many folks mistakenly call them a ground rattler, but a ground rattler actually has rattles, pits, slitted eyes, diamond shaped head. All the tell tell signs of a full sized pit viper except on a very small scale.

[Clampy]

They had a nest of ground rattlers under a piece of buckled up sidewalk in my neighbor hood. When I was like 15. It's the only ones I have seen in south LA.

[SpeckleBUTTCHEEKS]

Was found in Louisiana, and in a garden. It was reddish brown, b/w 1'-1.5' long, no rattle... at times his head would appear diamond shaped

[Fishaholic247]

Looks like a Rattleheaded Coppermoccassin!

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by SpeckleBUTTCHEEKS

Was found in Louisiana, and in a garden. It was reddish brown, b/w 1'-1.5' long, no rattle... at times his head would appear diamond shaped

Definite brown snake then, they are found in yards and the diamond shaped head and flattened out body was to try and mimic a venomous snake and appear larger than it was. You can't make them bite you if you tried, but all snakes that are small and brown are called ground rattlers, but as someone above said 'ground rattlers' is just a misnomer. We have 2 rattlesnakes the timber rattler aka canebrake rattler and the pygmy rattlesnake, the Eastern diamondacked rattler has been recorded to have been found in SE LA but the record is kinda sketchy.