#ground snake

[herpsandbirds]

Filetail Ground Snake (Sonora aemula), family Colubridae, Sonora, Mexico

* coral snake mimic. 

photograph by John Edward

[trashjackalope]

Ground snake

[typhlonectes]

Western Ground Snake (Sonora semiannulata)

White Sands National Park, New Mexico, USA

As the name suggest the variable groundsnakes can have a variety of different coloration and patterns ranging from orange, brown, gray, black, white, and pink. These small snakes only reach 8” to 12", have smooth glossy scales, and a head barely wider than its neck. 

Variable groundsnakes are secretive snakes that can most often be found underneath both human-generated and natural debris. They do sometimes become more surface active at night or during heavy rains. 

Due to their diminutive size, they prey on spiders, scorpions, centipedes and crickets. Variable groundsnakes are rear-fanged snakes that have a mildly toxic saliva that overpowers and helps digest their insect and arachnid prey but is harmless to humans.

via: National Park Service

[ketrinadrawsalot]

Sneks of California: The Variable Ground Snake comes in a wide variety of patterns and colors. This small noodle was once thought to have multiple subspecies based on the different patterns, but research revealed that there was so much interbreeding that they couldn’t be considered distinct anymore.

[twotattooedblondes-blog]

young and beautiful

[herpsandbirds]

Costa Rican Earth Snake (Geophis brachycephalus), family Colubridae, Costa Rica

photograph by Artur Tomaszek

[herpsandbirds]

Great Plains Groundsnake (Sonora episcopa), family Colubridae, SW Missouri, USA

Photograph by Peter Paplanus

[herpsandbirds]

Filetail Ground Snake (Sonora aemula), family Colubridae, Sonora, Mexico

Coral snake mimic.

photograph by Tim Warfel