Snake ID > General Discussion

Posted: 3/25/2012 1:58:29 PM EDT

Well, we haven't had a good snake ID thread in a while. Anyone want to take a guess?
Spotted him in a rock crevice while hiking yesterday.

Posted: 3/25/2012 1:59:02 PM EDT

[#1]

Posted: 3/25/2012 1:59:06 PM EDT

[#2]

looks like a rattlesnake to me

Posted: 3/25/2012 1:59:26 PM EDT

[#3]

Shoot first. Questions later.

Posted: 3/25/2012 1:59:33 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
looks like a rattlesnake to me

It is. What kind?

Posted: 3/25/2012 1:59:53 PM EDT

[#5]

That is probably a rattlesnake.

Pics of the fire?

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:00:39 PM EDT

[#6]

North American stink otter snake.

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:00:43 PM EDT

[#7]

rat snake, non-venomous, take it out and pet it

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:01:11 PM EDT

[#8]

Looks like it could be a Great Basin Rattler

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:01:50 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Looks like it could be a Great Basin Rattler

To far south for great basins.

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:03:08 PM EDT

[#10]

Mojave Rattlesnake?

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:03:16 PM EDT

[#11]

yup rattlesnake.

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:03:19 PM EDT

[#12]

Vibora de cascabel.

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:04:44 PM EDT

[#13]

It's pretty.

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:05:10 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Mojave Rattlesnake?

Not a Mojave.

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:05:13 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Looks like it could be a Great Basin Rattler

To far south for great basins.

The color is a bit off but sometimes cameras don't interpret color properly.

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:05:13 PM EDT

[#16]

sidewinder im my guess

Quoted:

Quoted:
looks like a rattlesnake to me

It is. What kind?

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:05:20 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
Shoot first. Questions later.

No no

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:05:34 PM EDT

[#18]

Black-tailed rattlesnake

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:05:40 PM EDT

[#19]

The leave it alone and don't mess with it variety. If it isn't in a direct threat to you, your family, or livestock, leave it be.

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:06:17 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
Black-tailed rattlesnake

We have a winner!

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:06:26 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:

Mojave Rattlesnake?

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:09:31 PM EDT

[#22]

The Not to fuck with kind of rattlesnake

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:09:49 PM EDT

[#23]

Possum

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:10:35 PM EDT

[#24]

Great pic.

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:13:01 PM EDT

[#25]

Looks alive in the pic, so I'ma go with "Bad Snake".

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:13:53 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
Great pic.

Thanks. An interesting find for the area, and my only crote find of the day, but not my target species.
Nice avatar!

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:14:21 PM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Black-tailed rattlesnake

We have a winner!

Northern black-tailed.

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:14:51 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
Looks alive in the pic, so I'ma go with "Bad Snake".

Nah, he was a good boy...never even rattled.

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:16:03 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Black-tailed rattlesnake

We have a winner!

Northern black-tailed.

Yep. In VERY southern Az.

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:19:39 PM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Great pic.

Thanks. An interesting find for the area, and my only crote find of the day, but not my target species.

Nice avatar!

Very cool. I can't wait to get out to AZ to herp sometime. I found the juvenile mojave in my avatar after 2 hours of road cruising, we were about to call it a night. Funny how it works.

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:21:07 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Black-tailed rattlesnake

We have a winner!

Northern black-tailed.

Yep. In VERY southern Az.

Roughly where in S AZ?

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:22:16 PM EDT

[#32]

Water headed copper moccasin.

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:22:17 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Black-tailed rattlesnake

We have a winner!

Northern black-tailed.

Yep. In VERY southern Az.

Roughly where in S AZ?

Yuma County.

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:23:25 PM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Great pic.

Thanks. An interesting find for the area, and my only crote find of the day, but not my target species.
Nice avatar!

Very cool. I can't wait to get out to AZ to herp sometime. I found the juvenile mojave in my avatar after 2 hours of road cruising, we were about to call it a night. Funny how it works.

Thats what makes it so much fun!

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:30:50 PM EDT

[#35]

Rattle Mouth Copper Mocasin.

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:41:15 PM EDT

[#36]

Nothing good!

Don't piss it off!

(Guess I should have read the other posts first.)

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:41:55 PM EDT

[#37]

The kind that go in a frying pan!

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:49:22 PM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
The kind that go in a frying pan!

Nah, had a turkey and provolone sammich with me!

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:53:51 PM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:
Water headed copper moccasin.

Copper-mouthed water rattler.

Posted: 3/25/2012 2:53:54 PM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:
Black-tailed rattlesnake

+1

Posted: 3/25/2012 3:24:05 PM EDT

[#41]

Here's one people can try to ID. Looking for a full ID to the subspecific level one these. The winner does not get a monkey.

Posted: 3/25/2012 3:34:31 PM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:
Here's one people can try to ID. Looking for a full ID to the subspecific level one these. The winner does not get a monkey.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v317/Windustsearch/Cali05082.jpg

Salvadora. Hard to be subspecific from this shot. hexalepis hexalepis?

Posted: 3/25/2012 3:47:56 PM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Mojave Rattlesnake?

Not a Mojave.

albino one eyed spitting viper?

Posted: 3/25/2012 3:50:39 PM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Here's one people can try to ID. Looking for a full ID to the subspecific level one these. The winner does not get a monkey.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v317/Windustsearch/Cali05082.jpg

Salvadora. Hard to be subspecific from this shot. hexalepis hexalepis?

You are on with the species. Think further west.

Posted: 3/25/2012 3:51:44 PM EDT

[#45]

Brown Recluse

Posted: 3/25/2012 3:52:45 PM EDT

[#46]

Quoted:
looks like a rattlesnake to me

Posted: 3/25/2012 3:56:05 PM EDT

[#47]

Quoted:
Mojave Rattlesnake?

Doesn't look like a Mojave Green to me.

Posted: 3/25/2012 4:01:21 PM EDT

[#48]

Rattle snake...no doubt

Posted: 3/25/2012 4:05:10 PM EDT

[#49]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Here's one people can try to ID. Looking for a full ID to the subspecific level one these. The winner does not get a monkey.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v317/Windustsearch/Cali05082.jpg

Salvadora. Hard to be subspecific from this shot. hexalepis hexalepis?

You are on with the species. Think further west.

deserticola

Posted: 3/25/2012 4:08:35 PM EDT

[#50]

Hognose snake.

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