Yellow Belly Snake Florida

The belly often has a row of black spots.

Yellow belly snake florida. Uniform colors are solid colors black brown tan orange yellow gray blue or green without any markings. Some lighter colored snakes dispaly dark dorsal blotches. Its mid body consists of a number of dorsal scale rows with scales that are weakly keeled having a ridge or shaped like a ridge. Yellow belly water snakes are often confused with venomous cottonmouth snakes according to the florida museum of natural history.

The color of its belly varies from dark greenish yellow to a rich yellow shade depending on its regional habitat. The belly frequently is a lighter contrasting color. The snake s forked tongue is black and it has a yellow colored iris. Crayfish snakes glossy crayfish snake.

The nerodia erythrogaster flavigaster also known as the yellow belly water snake has a greenish grey outer body and a yellow belly and neck. In it i will give you information about each snake s size weight location appearance habitat diet danger level and whether or not it makes a suitable pet. This snake can be distinguished from other water snakes by its plain unmarked underside varying in color from red to yellow. On some species the color may be darker on the head and neck and become lighter on the back part of the body.

They average in size between 8 to 12 inches long with the record being 16 inches long. Storeria occipitomaculata florida red belly snakes storeria occipitomaculata. Florida red belly snake. I was mowing the lawn today and went over a patch of the yard where there were a few boards over a hole and when i turned to make another pass i saw a black snake with sectioned yellow orange blocks on the underside it was about 5 ft.

The black snake with a yellow belly is called a southern ring necked snake or just ring necked snake these snakes have a black or dark grey back with smooth scales and a yellow or bright orange belly. Long and moved pretty quick. The snake s labial scales are also yellow. Red belly snakes florida brown snake.

Yellow rat snakes from the southern tip of their range tend to be more golden butter yellow overall and have lots of yellow highlights on the belly and under the chin compared to the tannish straw yellow colored yellow rat snakes from central and northern florida. Yellow rat snake ring necked snakes southern. Subspecies can be brown gray olive green greenish gray and black in color. Florida red belly snakes are small and have slender bodies.

State of florida non venomous. Most of the black and yellow snakes in this guide are suitable as pets but not all of them. The plain bellied water snake is a large thick bodied solid colored snake. Coastal north and south carolina southward throughout peninsular florida.

Florida snakes visual identification. Also known red bellied snakes are members of the colubridae family.