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this critter was found under a board in my yard and he seems to be almost melanistic. the only thing is he has a very very slight top stripe that is visible. he is about 6" long and is not unhappy being handled but not too happy either.
ignore the red in the pic, i dont know why the camera did that, his underside is totally black, but he does have a white chin.
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Kyron
Where do you live? Very nice, looks melanistic to me. You may have a new line of melanistics. Is it an eastern garter? I know the only melanistics I've seen are Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis. If it's not one of them you may have the only one. Thanks for sharing, Scott.
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Canada, BC on Vancouver Island. i actually have no idea if its an eastern or not... i'm not very good at identifying snakes yet
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Kyron
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