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Found this snake in Wesley Chapel (north of tampa, fl).
12 inches long, diamonds or stripes on back, orange and black...

http://hm-manufacturing.com/miscpics/stripedsnake.jpg

Striped snake

Looks like a young watersnake to me.
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

www.crimsonking.funtigo.com

That is a juvenile Florida Banded Watersnake. Totally harmless.

Just for future reference, snakes with that pattern are generally referred to as "banded". When the stripe is lengthwise (head to tail) they are called stripes.

So this snake would be striped -

while this snake would be banded -

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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

For future reference, the attached site may be of use to you.

~~Greg~~
Florida's Venomous Snakes

I love this line from the website: "Diamondbacks do have a proclivity toward shrinking as they get closer to a tape measure." So true! It's a lot like the way a fish will get lighter the closer it gets to the scale....

That was based on, among others, the time my sister-in-law called about a five foot diamondback on her front porch. I the twenty minutes it took me to arrive, it had moved from the front of the house to the back & shrunk to two feet.

~~Greg~~

Where'd you find that Chilomeniscus? That's a nice fat one! Excellent pic.
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Diego

Diego & Tiffany's Zoo:
SNAKES
0.1.0 Boa Constrictor
1.2.0 Corn Snakes (Different morphs)
1.1.0 Hypo Everglades Rat Snakes
1.1.0 Trans-Pecos Rat Snakes
1.1.0 Salt and Pepper Bull Snakes
0.1.0 Amel Pacific Gopher Snake
2.1.0 Sonoran Gopher Snakes
0.1.0 Amel Sonoran Gopher Snake
1.1.0 Mexican Black Kingsnakes
1.0.0 Gray Banded Kingsnake
0.1.1 California Kingsnake
1.1.0 Thayeri Kingsnake
3.2.0 Rosy Boas (Mexican, Temecula, & Mid Baja)
1.1.0 Kenyan Sand Boas
0.1.0 Indonesian Dwarf Pacific Boa
1.1.0 Cape York Spotted Pythons
1.0.0 Ball Python
1.1.0 Western Hognoses
0.0.1 Lyre Snake
0.0.1 Glossy Snake

LIZARDS
2.0.0 Bearded Dragons
0.1.0 Eastern Collared Lizard
1.0.0 African Fat-Tail Gecko
0.1.0 Merauke Blue Tongue Skink
1.4.0 Leopard Geckos
1.0.1 Yellow Niger Uromastyx
1.1.0 Chuckwalla
1.4.0 Banded Gecko
0.0.1 Gold Dust Day Gecko
1.1.3 Sandfish

AMPHIBIANS
1.0.1 Green Tree Frogs
1.0.0 Bubbling Kassina
0.0.1 White's Tree Frog
0.0.2 Gold Frogs
1.0.0 Fire Salamander

>>Where'd you find that Chilomeniscus? That's a nice fat one!

It came of Sasabe Road, SW of Tucson, or over near the Harcuvars. I don't remember which, although I think Sasabe is correct. We found a single Chionactis on the same trip and I'm pretty sure it was Chionactis from Harcuvars and Chilomeniscus on Sasabe.
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

I'm a fan of the Chionactis as well!

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Diego

Diego & Tiffany's Zoo:
SNAKES
0.1.0 Boa Constrictor
1.2.0 Corn Snakes (Different morphs)
1.1.0 Hypo Everglades Rat Snakes
1.1.0 Trans-Pecos Rat Snakes
1.1.0 Salt and Pepper Bull Snakes
0.1.0 Amel Pacific Gopher Snake
2.1.0 Sonoran Gopher Snakes
0.1.0 Amel Sonoran Gopher Snake
1.1.0 Mexican Black Kingsnakes
1.0.0 Gray Banded Kingsnake
0.1.1 California Kingsnake
1.1.0 Thayeri Kingsnake
3.2.0 Rosy Boas (Mexican, Temecula, & Mid Baja)
1.1.0 Kenyan Sand Boas
0.1.0 Indonesian Dwarf Pacific Boa
1.1.0 Cape York Spotted Pythons
1.0.0 Ball Python
1.1.0 Western Hognoses
0.0.1 Lyre Snake
0.0.1 Glossy Snake

LIZARDS
2.0.0 Bearded Dragons
0.1.0 Eastern Collared Lizard
1.0.0 African Fat-Tail Gecko
0.1.0 Merauke Blue Tongue Skink
1.4.0 Leopard Geckos
1.0.1 Yellow Niger Uromastyx
1.1.0 Chuckwalla
1.4.0 Banded Gecko
0.0.1 Gold Dust Day Gecko
1.1.3 Sandfish

AMPHIBIANS
1.0.1 Green Tree Frogs
1.0.0 Bubbling Kassina
0.0.1 White's Tree Frog
0.0.2 Gold Frogs
1.0.0 Fire Salamander