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culebra - Shaws dark ground snake.

Liophis melanotus

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Field Notes

Description:

Family / Familia: Colubridae

Habitat:

río Socuy, Sierra de Perijá, Edo Zulia, Venezuela ------------ Socuy River, Perijá Mountains, Zulia State, Venezuela

Notes:

Esta región se encuentra amenazada por la minería de carbón y la creación de una planta Termo-Eléctrica generada por la combustión del carbón. ------------ This region is currently threatened by coal mining and the creation of a Thermo-electric plant powered by coal combustion.

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Shaw's dark ground snake

Species ID Suggestions

Shaws dark ground snake.

Liophis melanotus
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Sonora Whipsnake

Masticophis bilineatus
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Comments (3)
turtlesandtombstones
Nice series! If you google "Shaw's dark ground snake" you get mostly pictures of the drab, brown variety with very little yellow. If you google the scientific name 'Liophis melanotus' there are a bunch with the mostly bright yellow markings to compare with this guy.
BillSweeney
Beautiful snake! It looks like some kind of racer / garter / queen snake from the Colubridae family. There aren't a lot of good photo ID based sites for snakes form South America, the best match I could find was from a Venezuelan tourism site: Striped Queen Snake http://www.venezuelatuya.com/natura/026eng.htm

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PublishedJuly 10, 2013

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