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The recent macro pics of Rat Snake scale patterns posted here are super.
Thanks to DMong for starting it and to all who followed up with it, including Chrish’s quiz.
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Just for fun and in the spirit of always being amazed by how diverse Rat Snakes are, these are eyes of some naturally occurring, North American, U.S., Rat Snakes.
Please feel free to add your own.
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Florida Corn
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Anethryistic Florida Corn (WC)
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Kisatchie Corn
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Emory’s Rat Snake
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Eastern Fox
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Western Fox
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Trans-pecos Rat Snake
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Western GreenRat Snake
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Yellow Rat Snake (northern variant)
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Black Rat Snake
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Gray Rat Snake
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Orange Rat Snake (Everglades)
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Texas Rat Snake
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Gulf Hammoeck Variant
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Deckert’s Variant
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Bairds Rat Snake

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Regards, Bill McGighan

Very nice, Bill! Good shots of some very nice snakes.

Here's one of a southwestern rat snake (Elaphe (Pantherophis) emoryi meahllmorum).

-Toby Brock

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Perfect.. Thanks for that, Toby
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Regards, Bill McGighan

...lookin' at you!

:Mark
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This whole topic, Mark, makes me think of that red eyed Yellow you found a year or so ago.
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Regards, Bill McGighan

Those are some incredible pictures there Bill! Randy W.

Thanks, Randy.
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Regards, Bill McGighan

Great shots, that was really cool!
Tom Stevens
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TomsSnakes.com

Glad you enjoyed them, Tom.
You should try something similar over in Kingsnake Forum!!!
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Regards, Bill McGighan

I just may try something like that on the King forum. I had a very busy season over here and things have finally begun to wind down. I was a bit overwhelmed at times and sold some great animals before getting any decent pics of them. I am hoping to get a bunch of pics before my adults get cooled for the winter. Thanks again for posting those pictures, I really enjoyed this post!
Tom Stevens
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TomsSnakes.com

That's cool!

I don't have many eye closeups (snakes don't appreciate my macro lens), so here's a few shots with some eyes...

Elaphe (?) quadrivittata

Pseudoelaphe flavirufa

Rhynchophis

bairdii

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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

As always, great Chris.
Pseudelaphe eyes are truely the strangest!
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Regards, Bill McGighan

PS Chris,
Have you seen anything on the research done in the '80s that hypothesized that subterranean snakes or lizard ancestors lost their eyes as we know them and the modern animals have structure unlike other vertebrates?
I can't remember who or where..
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Regards, Bill McGighan

Here are a few.
snow corn

Bairds rat snake

Yellow rat snake

creamsicle

Emoryi rat

anerythristic corn

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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"Resistance is futile"
Jimmy Johnson
(Draybar)
Draybars Snakes

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Nowhere near the quality of everyone else's photos, but here are 2 of mine.

John

Thanks, John
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Regards, Bill McGighan

Nice line-up, Jimmy.
The snow corn eyes are freaky!
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Regards, Bill McGighan

Some quads have really cool eyes....quadrivirgata:

Shane
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Lifelist

Very cool, Shane, and very different eyes.
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Seems like the quad I kept in the '80s never constricted and acted more like a racer!
Thanks
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Regards, Bill McGighan

Yeah, but they're still Elaphe

Shane
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Lifelist

Here's a king rat (E. carinata) for you:

Beautiful animal.
That eye makes you wonder what evil the "stinking goddess" is planning!
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Regards, Bill McGighan

Of course, there was that satanic suboc in west Teaxas....
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Regards, Bill McGighan

Thats a CIA snake-bot. They have a couple pigeon-bots keeping an eye on me.

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and indigo-bots! Here's looking at you, kid!

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Todd Hughes

You see now, Guys, I was thinking supernatural.
How foolish.
Animal-bots make perfect sense; kind of like the old movie, "West World".
Whoa.... scarey....
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Regards, Bill McGighan

Great pix all!
These photos are GREAT for referring to if anyone decides to get any snake tattoos done and needs some close-up detail.
My next tattoo will be a snake, unfortunately not a colubrid. I'll probably get something in the pigmy rattler realm.
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Tom

"The more people I meet, the more I like my snakes"

My hatchling abbott okeetee:

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