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14 hours ago, Jerry Callo said:

You would think the directional names would be helpful, but its crazy in Central Texas - 

Western Ribbonsnake, Western Ratsnake, Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnake, Western Coachwhip

Eastern Hog-nosed, Eastern Yellow-bellied Racer, Eastern Copperhead

Northern Cottonmouth

 

 

14 hours ago, Steel Shank said:

It may be the damnedest thing I've ever seen.

 

13 hours ago, miguelito said:

We should just remove the directional part and call it "Texas."

Texas Ribbonsnake, Texas Ratsnake, etc

 

13 hours ago, Jerry Callo said:

Like the Texas Indigo snake, Texas Patch-nosed Snake, and Texas Coralsnake.

 

 

 

Classic Texan, thinking that y'all are just the center of everything.

 

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😁

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29 minutes ago, Handcruser said:

What kind of snake. I need to know whether to burn everything down or what.

Can you get a picture of the underside?  Specifically the anal plate? 

Dual rows of scales beyond the anal plate would denote non venomous.

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Can you get a picture of the underside?  Specifically the anal plate? 
Dual rows of scales beyond the anal plate would denote non venomous.
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I don’t see dual rows of scales
Posted
3 minutes ago, Handcruser said:

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I don’t see dual rows of scales

I don't either, but I also don't see the tail.  I don't see markings on the skin that reassemble the markings of the venomous snakes.   Looks like a Western ratsnake to me, but that's just a guess. 

Post it on Central Texas Snake ID Facebook page and you'll get a definitive answer.

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Not a Snek but my cat brought this to me tonight. It is missing about 3 inches of its tail. It is not dead. It ran off before I could get a better picture. I live in NE Texas and have never seen this type of lizard before.

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Posted
1 hour ago, Handcruser said:

That skin is 5 feet long. I need to know what I’m dealing with.

I would almost guarantee a rat snake. 
Feel like half our snake ID requests are rat snakes. 

Posted
4 hours ago, Jerry Callo said:

I don't either, but I also don't see the tail.  I don't see markings on the skin that reassemble the markings of the venomous snakes.   Looks like a Western ratsnake to me, but that's just a guess. 

Post it on Central Texas Snake ID Facebook page and you'll get a definitive answer.

 

24 minutes ago, Lerka Lerka said:

I would almost guarantee a rat snake. 
Feel like half our snake ID requests are rat snakes. 

No chance it’s a coachwhip?

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Posted
6 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

 

No chance it’s a coachwhip?

There is a good chance is a coachwhip.  A Western ratsnake would have a discernible pattern on the shed, which i can't make make out.  

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I would almost guarantee a rat snake. 
Feel like half our snake ID requests are rat snakes. 

The consensus on the Facebook snake ID pages is Texas Indigo. So good snake.
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Posted
2 hours ago, mininghorn88 said:

Yes, I have plenty around my yard. Just never seen one with spots.

All Geckos found in Texas have spots or bands. I've caught house Geckos all over Texas. 

Posted
47 minutes ago, Handcruser said:


The consensus on the Facebook snake ID pages is Texas Indigo. So good snake.

On those Facebook snake groups the consensus is often wrong. Look for what the moderator says. They are the gold standard. 

Posted
6 hours ago, mininghorn88 said:

Yes, I have plenty around my yard. Just never seen one with spots.

Are you sure you're not thinking of Green Anoles?  Sometimes they are green and sometimes they are brown.  

Posted
4 hours ago, Handcruser said:


The consensus on the Facebook snake ID pages is Texas Indigo. So good snake.

That was my guess because of shape and size of scales.

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Posted
4 minutes ago, Jerry Callo said:

Are you sure you're not thinking of Green Anoles?  Sometimes they are green and sometimes they are brown.  

Yeah, people call anoles "geckos," "chameleons," etc. but they're not.  Each one, respectively.

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10 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Yeah, people call anoles "geckos," "chameleons," etc. but they're not.  Each one, respectively.

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I had a veiled chameleon growing up. Such a badass little animal, but very short lifespan. After that I got a Ball Python.  
 

I’ve had him since I was 12. I turned 43 this week and he’s still around.

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Posted
53 minutes ago, Jerry Callo said:

Yep.  Looks like a juvenile Western ratsnake.

My daughter just finished a semester of herpetology at Texas St. She says it is a Great Plains Rat Snake. Apparently, the dark band across the nose is the telltale sign. 9 out of  10 snakes we see around here are Rat Snakes of one variety or another. Pretty safe guess whenever a snek shows itself. My best friend's wife sent me the picture and asked if it was a good snek or bad. I told her it was good so she picked it up and carried it across the road and released it in a pasture. He would have put on a hazmat suit and welding gloves before he would have touched it😄.

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Posted
8 minutes ago, Shoxthemonkey said:

My daughter just finished a semester of herpetology at Texas St. She says it is a Great Plains Rat Snake. Apparently, the dark band across the nose is the telltale sign. 9 out of  10 snakes we see around here are Rat Snakes of one variety or another. Pretty safe guess whenever a snek shows itself. My best friend's wife sent me the picture and asked if it was a good snek or bad. I told her it was good so she picked it up and carried it across the road and released it in a pasture. He would have put on a hazmat suit and welding gloves before he would have touched it😄.

I’m not seeing a problem with that. 

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Posted

Both Western ratsnakes and Great Plains ratsnakes have a bar across the eyes.  The Great Plains ratsnake has an "arrow point" pattern on the top of the head where the Western ratsnake does not.

Great Plains ratsnake:

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Western ratsnake:

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I can be tough to determine for sure.  I thought yours might be a Great Plains as well, but I think it is a Western.

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On 6/6/2025 at 12:35 AM, Biff Tannen said:

I had a veiled chameleon growing up. Such a badass little animal, but very short lifespan. After that I got a Ball Python.  
 

I’ve had him since I was 12. I turned 43 this week and he’s still around.

Snek pic?

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I have to ask - what is the worst bite you’ve ever received from your buddy?   My friend was tagged from time to time by his snake being excited that a rat was about to be dropped in his tank - the snake would sometimes strike as rat-chow was about to be dropped, miss and grab his hand.  Which he said was not pleasant and that the teeth are designed so that the prey cannot pull out of the bite so easily. 

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I had a ball, a couple red tail boas, and a dumeril boa when I was in high school. Had to sell (on the cheap) to a herpetologist in the area when I went into uncle sam's canoe club. So not as long as Biff's run, but still a bit of a run.

I used tongs when feeding, never got tagged. Never handled their food, and then them, without rigorous hand/forearm washing, etc. Basic, common sense. Not that I was an expert, that was just how I was taught (by referenced herpetologist.)

The herpetologist was mainly focusing on corn/milk sneks, breeding and such, and was (and continues to be) well known in those circles.

 

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