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Alright someone I know found this snake in a packages of banana's they ordered from quatemala! I cannot identify it and have been trying to for a while lol. The only thing i have been able to compare these pictures too is this but it isnt really anything . . . "Leptodeira septentrionalis" .

Heres some pics!! Thanks for the help guys email me at

willtheydieforyou@hotmail.com with your answers because I
am not good at navigating on this site!!

CHEERS

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=vwx1tl&s=4

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=rsrkig&s=4

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=21o52is&s=4

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=205quxk&s=4

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=jhgh8x&s=4

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=281ehdk&s=4

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=mk9f2g&s=4

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=24x0wn6&s=4

Gopher snake? That's what it looks like to me.
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Jack Jeansonne

>>Alright someone I know found this snake in a packages of >>banana's they ordered from quatemala!

The reason you can't find the snake in Guatemalan resources is that it is one of the western subspecies of Gophersnake (Pituophis catenifer). The bananas may have come from Guatemala, but the snake came from the west coast.

There is a species of Pituophis (P. lineaticollis) that occurs in Guatemala, but only in the highlands (not where bananas grow) and it doesn't look anything like this animal.
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas