Florida Rat Snake Pictures

Different species of snake can often be distinguished by their characteristic color patterns.

Florida rat snake pictures. I haven t let my boxer out since looking at your pictures was helpful but this snake seemed a much brighter yellow or maybe it was just me that was yellow. Eastern ratsnake blotched juvenile upper image and striped adult lower image photos by kenney krysko flmnh upper photo and dirk stevenson lower photo. Others have dark or light markings organized into stripes spots blotches or some other pattern. A yellow rat snake pantherophis obsoleta quadrivittata on a in sand and palm trees in florida usa.

Some are single uniform colors. This species varies in color but usually has a yellowish tan to orange body color with large red or faded blotches located on. Its average length ranges from 30 48 inches 76 2 121 92 centimeters but it can grow up to 72 inches 182 9 centimeters. Browse 494 rat snake stock photos and images available or search for black rat snake or yellow rat snake to find more great stock photos and pictures.

The most familiar rat snakes in the florida peninsula are the yellow rat snakes. The eastern diamondback rattler has the most lethal bite. The gray rat snake elaphe obsoleta spiloides is the gray subspecies of rat snake is found in the florida panhandle and west into louisiana. The eastern diamondback rattlesnake the timber rattlesnake the dusky pygmy rattlesnake the coral snake the cottonmouth and the copperhead.

Florida snakes visual identification. These beautiful snakes have a gray body with large blotches along the back and sides. The red rat snake is the best climbing species of snake in florida tallahassee museum n d. These snakes are highly venomous and pose a genuine danger to humans.

However there are just 6 venomous snakes in florida. Classically these snakes have yellow irises and four barrow brown stripes that go down their backs. They are a morph of black rat snake eastern rat snake with orange or yellow coloring all over. Here is a quick look at most of florida s snakes by pattern.

Mud and rainbow snakes farancia mud snake rainbow snake pine snakes pituophis black pine snake florida pine snake pine woods snake rhadinea pine woods snake rat snakes. We live in coconut creek fl. Florida s snakes eastern yellow or everglades ratsnake pantherophis alleghaniensis formerly considered a subspecies of elaphe obsoletus non venomous blotched juvenile striped adult. A website dedicated to the identification of florida snakes.