Help id snake

[Dale_Arthurs]

http://www.falfiles.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=106999 saw this guy needed help and decided to donate you guys :)

[AMills]

It looks like it is not native. It looks like some kind of boa. Not really sure though. Anyone else have any ideas.

[HERPSKEEPER]

:confused: :confused: :confused:

[reptilepunk]

Diamondback watersnake

[Wlydcard]

That Snake is from my home state:hi

Its a Texas Night Snake

"Only two things come out of Texas,Big men and Bigger Snakes",lol


Mark

[JJFeldner]

any Texas Night Snake I ever saw. The body is too fat and heavy and the tail is too short. TX Nightsnake look essentially like the ones found here in AZ, although they do get a little larger (up to about 2' in OA length. I am going to have a friend from TX take a look and see if he can ID it. It looks like a boid but it certainly does not look native. Brazos Watersnakes should not be anywhere around Dallas.

[JJFeldner]

that the snake pictured, although it is a crappy shot, is Ungaliophis sp., formerly a genus in the Boidae but now in its own family, Ungaliophidae. Common name is the Bromeliad Boa. Two spp, U. panamensis and U. atlanticus.
Photos can be viewed in Barron's Boa book, available at most petshops or in Savage's "Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica."

[HERPSKEEPER]

could you translate that to english


thanks



:loco :loco

[Wlydcard]

Well it seems my initial guess was wrong,the pattern does not cut the pinky to be a Tx. Night Snake,i still say the head and first section of it looks like one(come on i have to salvage a bit of dignity out of this,lol:rolleyes:

After all i did live and serve my Country in Dallas


Mark

[Donna]

I know what it is... it's a snake.. gee all you silly snake guys outta know that. :Nana

[Wlydcard]

Yor tell 'em Donna,

Hiyas Hun:hi


Mark

[HERPSKEEPER]

So, has the snake been i.d. yet?