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Xenochrophis piscator
It was a baby. hardly the thickness of my finger...and it seemed all brown in the dark. But I see there is a checkered pattern...and so I think it is a checkered keelback.If so, it is non venomous.
My garden. It wriggled out under the gate, fell into the open rainwater drain and swam away.
Spotted on Apr 30, 2015
Submitted on Apr 30, 2015
3 Comments
I bet he was looking for food then! You left him living, I'm sure he enjoyed a feast soon after :)
Thanks, Ashley...it was really cute and it tried to blend into the shadow of the wall! It had rained earlier and the termites were out and toad babies and lizards were having a feast; I think snakeling wanted to join the feast and I ruined it.
I agree with checkered keelback. Pattern matches and so does the stripe behind the eye. What a cutie!