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Spilotes pullatus
This one is about 2 m long, beautifully distinct black & butter yellow markings. Eats birds, small mammals, lizards, etc.
Mainly arboreal, likes to live near water.
This one was sitting quite quietly in its tree & let us approach very closely.
Spotted on Nov 18, 2013
Submitted on Nov 18, 2013
3 Comments
Thanks Ashley. I figured I had it right, just got confused when a single person on their blog said one photo was of an oriole snake and the other was of a rat snake. Two pictures, two names, same snake. Where I live they call it a mica.
It's just different common names for the same species, almost every species has more than one common name. That's why there are scientific names, each species only has one proper scientific name.
I am confused about this ID - initially we figured it was an oriole snake, with this latin name, but then I've seen references on a single site to both oriole snake and rat snake, implying there is a difference. Also called chicken snake, yellow rat snake, or serpiente tigre?