TomSpinker
Kansas Glossy Snake, Texas
Kansas Glossy Snake
Arizona elegans elegans
West Texas, west of Andrews, Andrews County.
13 Sept 2009, 8:30pm.
At side of road after sunset.
This species looks alot like the Bullsnake or the Great Plains Rat Snake.
To distinguish these species, according to Tennant and Bartlett Snakes of North America Eastern and Central Regions:
Prairie Kingsnakes and Bullsnakes lack the "light vertebral line just behind the neck".
I take that to mean the line that I marked as Note A.
The snake also has two prefrontal scales (Note B). Bullsnakes usually have four.
Other shots of same snake:
k1000335
Kansas Glossy Snake, Texas
Kansas Glossy Snake
Arizona elegans elegans
West Texas, west of Andrews, Andrews County.
13 Sept 2009, 8:30pm.
At side of road after sunset.
This species looks alot like the Bullsnake or the Great Plains Rat Snake.
To distinguish these species, according to Tennant and Bartlett Snakes of North America Eastern and Central Regions:
Prairie Kingsnakes and Bullsnakes lack the "light vertebral line just behind the neck".
I take that to mean the line that I marked as Note A.
The snake also has two prefrontal scales (Note B). Bullsnakes usually have four.
Other shots of same snake:
k1000335