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Pine Woods Snake

Rhadinaea flavilata

Description:

Very small reddish brown snake. It had a white belly, red eyes, and the head was a bit darker brown than the body. It was a fast burrower, and we watched it push up the the decaying wood and dirt as it burrowed down into it

Habitat:

Under decaying logs in a wooded area

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1 Comment

Tukup
Tukup 4 years ago

Almost impossible to get good head shots of burrowing snakes. Looking at the second reference, that isn't the type head I was expecting at all on a burrowing snakes. Nice catch Machi. One has to be quick with the camera to catch them at all.

Machi
Spotted by
Machi

City of Gainesville Municipal Boundaries, Florida, USA

Spotted on Feb 2, 2019
Submitted on Apr 24, 2019

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