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Liophis melanotus
Family / Familia: Colubridae
río Socuy, Sierra de Perijá, Edo Zulia, Venezuela ------------ Socuy River, Perijá Mountains, Zulia State, Venezuela
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.
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.
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/026e...
Spotted on Jul 8, 2013
Submitted on Jul 10, 2013
