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If that is Anomochilus leonardi, and I think it's likely, then that's an incredible find! Anomochilid snakes are known from only nine specimens ever collected.
http://snakesarelong.blogspot.ch/2012/04...
It is Thamnophis radix, the Plains Gartersnake
It could be a queen snake. I agree about the eyes, it is about to shed.
Hard to tell from this photo, could be a garter or watersnake.
Orange middorsal stripe, strongly barred labial scales, and dorsolateral stripe on scale rows 3 & 4 makes this T. radix
Alex Kupfer says:
hard to say…the picture is not very good. Maybe…..Well this find is not located in the typical distribution area of caecilians in India (i.e. Western Ghats).
Do you keep more pics? Have you seen any scales? Did you see a stripe?
I have sent this link to Alexander Kupfer, who studies caecilians - perhaps he can help.
Also the tail looks keeled on top, suggesting an aquatic caecilian.
I'm not saying it's not. The skin looks too smooth and slimy for a reptile, which is why I though perhaps it was an amphibian (a caecilian).
