Coral snake

The average size of mature Texas Coral Snakes is 2 to 3 feet in length. They can grow much larger, with a current record of 47.75 inches, but that is rare.

Texas Coral Snakes are colorful snakes. They have rings of black, yellow, and red around their bodies. The yellow rings are very thin compared to the black and red rings. The red rings of Texas Coral Snakes typically have scattered black speckles in them. The last several inches of the tail of the Texas Coral Snake contains several rings of black and yellow, without the red rings. Several other snakes are colored similarly, with black, yellow, and red rings, but there is a phrase to help identify coral snakes from these other look-alikes:

Red touches yellow - kill a fellow
Red touches black - venom lack