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Field Herp Find--ID please?

zamora

zamora

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Found this on our property this weekend and I am having a hard time with an ID---color wise, looks like a grey rat but the ones I have seen in this area were not motley marked and the heads are shaped differently. This one was shaped more like a corn but what strange colors...any info appreciated! Enjoy!

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Oh, sorry but the battery on the camera died after this pic so I only have the one.
 
If it is a juvie black rat then it sure is light. I have a CB black rat about the exact same size and she is almost completely dark and patternless except for her underside. Could it be a yellow/black intergrade? I don't know if you have those in Mississippi?
 
Do I not see it's ventral side along your wrist? And if so do I not see a lot of color and checkers? Dorsally it looks like a Motley but if that is what I am seeing would that not rule out Motley as a possibility in this snakes morph?
 
That is a 'Greenish' Ratsnake which is a natural intergrade of the Black Ratsnake and Yellow ratsnake.
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Greenish Ratsnakes do not live in southern Mississippi. Yellow Ratsnakes also do not live in Mississippi. It's either a "pure" Texas Ratsnake or Texas X Grey Ratsnake intergrade.
 
Asbit said:
Do I not see it's ventral side along your wrist? And if so do I not see a lot of color and checkers? Dorsally it looks like a Motley but if that is what I am seeing would that not rule out Motley as a possibility in this snakes morph?
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Yes, that is the ventral side on my husband's wrist, there were NO checkers to be found but I am not familiar with the rat or corn morphs (yet) so I can't answer whether or not that would rule out the motley morph.

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That is a 'Greenish' Ratsnake which is a natural intergrade of the Black Ratsnake and Yellow ratsnake.

Greenish Ratsnakes do not live in southern Mississippi. Yellow Ratsnakes also do not live in Mississippi. It's either a "pure" Texas Ratsnake or Texas X Grey Ratsnake intergrade.

Interesting...
 
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