Another snake ID

[Geezy Rider]

I'd highly recommend this Facebook group. Not just for north Texas. Has taught me a lot (although I still have to fight my desire to KAS) https://www.facebook.com/groups/whatsnakeisthis/


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You are da man!
Thanks for posting that group. I just joined them and already have a couple of posts over there.
Great place to get educated.

[GeoHunter]

Thanks for help, I will be sure to call my local Herpetologist before asking the green screen. [emoji6]

Regardless of what kind of snake it is, it is dead if it's on our property per the wife's instructions. I was just curious about what kind it was.

[udrandman]

You are da man!

Thanks for posting that group. I just joined them and already have a couple of posts over there.

Great place to get educated.

Haha. I've just been lurking and making guesses to myself. Getting much better though!


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[JayKen86]

I would say spend 10 minutes on a google search and study the 4 venom snakes that we have in texas. That is all. Then every other snake is not.. Easier to learn it that way then to try to figure out what every non venomous snake is.. Rats are spunky long dudes that will put up a good show, but harmless...

There's more than 4

[JayKen86]

There's more than 4 types of rattlesnakes alone, then copperheads, water moccasins, and corals

[BTLowry]

Without even opening thread I would guess rat snake and be correct 95+% of the time on TBH

[.270]

This needs to be a requirement for posting a Snake ID thread. Over half these snake threads are rat/chicken snakes

Yup Rat snakes need there own forum.

[okrattler]

There's more than 4 types of rattlesnakes alone, then copperheads, water moccasins, and corals

There's like 11 different rattlesnake in Texas with a few of those being subspecies. 3 different subspecies of copperhead. But rattlesnakes are easy to tell what it is. If it has a rattle it's venomous.

[.270]

There's like 11 different rattlesnake in Texas with a few of those being subspecies. 3 different subspecies of copperhead. But rattlesnakes are easy to tell what it is. If it has a rattle it's venomous.

Someone in my neighborhood killed a small blacktail rattler. Bummed I didn't get to see it before it was offed.

[okrattler]

Someone in my neighborhood killed a small velvet tail rattler. Bummed I didn't get to see it before it was offed.

Yeah that's one people definitely need to learn in Texas. Here in Oklahoma they're legal to catch and everything. Pretty cool snakes. They're generally not as Ill tempered as most of the others. I have a nice skin off of one that's probably about 40 years old. Really pretty snakes.

I just seen you meant Blacktailed Rattler. Which look alot like a Timber/Canebreak. They're not protected as far as I know but the other is. West Texas is where the Blacktailed Rattlesnake are commonly found. East Texas is where the Canebreak is more common.