can you id this snake? Just for fun~ no donkeys avail

[wattso]

 

[marc]

its an elapid not from Australia to what species????? cool head on him

 

[wattso]

non ven but its saliva is anticoagulant!..................

 

[craig]

rough scaled snake??

 

[marc]

someone has been searching the sites for the hardest snake to ID,
I LOVE IT :lol: ...I will keep looking

 

[wattso]

sorry craig........try again..........close look at head shape...............

 

[marc]

northern water snake (Nerodia sipedon) :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[wattso]

VERY close!!!!!.............subspecies?

 

[marc]

Carolina water snake (Nerodia sipedon williamegelsi)

 

[varanus]

Diamondback watersnake - Nerodia rhombifer?

 

[wattso]

Still VERY close Marc.......................close but no no cigar Varanus...........it IS nerodia though

 

[marc]

N.erythrogaster

 

[varanus]

Nerodia sipedon insularum - last guess

 

[wattso]

VARANUS!!!!,,,,WELL DONE!
http://www.rom.on.ca/ontario/risk.php?doc_type=fact&lang=&id=98

 

[wattso]

How about this beauty???

 

[marc]

Parophocephalus atriceps the lake cronin snake

 

[wattso]

Lol BINGO! cleverbum, ill have to find something harder. sunbeam was a good one though...........iwant i want.....

 

[marc]

sumbeam was a good one, I knew the last one because I just proof read an artical on its reproduction

but you try this one :lol:

 

[wattso]

Um.....at first glance it looks diamond ish, except for the black marks down the spine. is it an elapid, bit hard to see if it has heat pits or not. what country? i dont have a bloody clue lol

 

[marc]

central USA, colubrid