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To ask a question about a snake, don't reply to this post, go to the forum home page and start a new post. Your question will get a lot more exposure. Please give us an idea of where you live, as reptiles can often be identified only by locality!
Please do not place messages about killing a snake, and asking what kind it is you have killed! That is like going onto a message board about dogs and telling about torturing one to death, and asking what kind of breed it was. You will likely get "flamed", and likely by the forum owner, depending on his mood that day.
A note about head shape in snakes: Head shape is a totally useless character for identifying a snake, and has nothing to do with whether the serpent is or is not venomous (poisonous). Many harmless snakes, especially when young, have rather large heads. Please describe color, pattern, markings, and habitat where the snake was found. The shape of the head will not help us in any way.
Thank you.
Re: what kind of snake did i find?
Posted by Alex, forum owner on January 5, 2006, 9:03 pm, in reply to "what kind of snake did i find?"
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: it looked like a baby. it was reddish
: brownish color with blackish lookin
: spots. tail was slender.its head was
: reddish lookin the body looked like it
: was fading color. found in southeastern
: nc.
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How big was it? It sounds like a full grown Brown Snake, sometimes called DeKay snake, named after a Biologist named DeKay.
They are quite small, a reddish brown color, and have a double row of black spots down the back. They don't get much bigger than 8 inches long, about the size of a hatchling Black Rat Snake.
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