Hi again everyone,
The worm snakes are doing really well. Exciting news. I was so puzzled at that new brown snake. It seemed very familiar looking, and it was given to me as Northern brown snake. I still believe it to be gravid. It is bloated, but very healthy and active. Anyway, I took my Northern brown, as well as the new "Northern brown", and I lined their heads up to compare them, as I got out Conant's field guide to reptiles and amphibians of eastern and central America.
The snakes were quite upset, and thrashing wildly, so it was quite hard for me to hold them still. I did not get an exact ID, but after looking at the arrangement of the head shields as compared to the other brown snake, as well as feeling the texture of the scales, and comparing color notes, I am maybe 92.8% sure that I have the rare...
GRAVID SMOOTH EARTH SNAKE!
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DAVE
1.0 Western green toad
1.1 green treefrogs
1.0 Florida blue garter snake
1.1 Oriental fire-bellied toads
1.0 American bullfrog
0.1 Spanish ribbed newt
0.0.1 Eastern ribbon snake
1.1 red-cheeked mud turtles
0.1 Dubia day gecko
1.0 Sonoran gopher snake
0.1 rough green snakes
1.1 giant African black millipedes
1.0 Okeetee corn snake
0.1 Albino African clawed frog
1.0 Kenyan sand boa
0.0.1 Argentine flame-bellied toadlet
0.0.1 African bullfrog
1.0 yellow * Everglades rat snake intergrade
1.1 Western hognose snakes
1.2 fire salamanders
1.1 scarlet kingsnakes
0.0.1 Argentine horned frog
1.1 Southern ringneck snakes
0.0.2 Western hooknose snakes
0.0.1 Florida brown snake
0.1.1 Northern brown snakes
0.0.2 Western/ Midwestern worm snake intergrades
