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Hello, my name is Luis. I live in Arizona, but my family is from México. I went to Guadalajara for a few weeks to visit my grandma and cousins. My favorite cousin likes snakes, and so do I and he took me looking for snakes one night. It was my first snake trip ever, and I had a great time!

I don´t know all the scientific names of the snakes, so I wonder if someone could help me. Thanks!

Here is me and a big stick bug we found on the road

a lyre snake?

lyre snake?

what kind of snake is this? snail eating snake?

Another snake we found that night, it think is some kind of snail eating snake or some weird milksnake?

We also found this dead snake, my first rattlesnake! my cousin had never seen a snake like this one before. He told me that it might be a lance-headed rattlesnake, but he then told me that it might be some kind of long-tailed rattlesnake or something.

Me and my cousin Roberto with the rattlesnake

Here is the rattlesnake again, I like it a lot!

I can´t wait to go back to México!!! Thanks Roberto for taking me out to look for snakes and for the pictures!

Please let me know that you think the snakes are.

Luis

The rattlesnake looks like a longtailed rattlesnake.Do you remember the location you found it???

Hey check out this coincidence.....

Little Luis posted a "Look at the snake I found" post. Of course he pleads ignorance, yet strangely enough he posts this on the Crotaline forum rather than the field herping forum, general snake forum, What Kind of snake forum, etc. where these sort of posts are commonplace. Why this forum?

Why? Maybe because "Little Luis" knew that the people on the other forums wouldn't be so inclined to get all hot and bothered by that DOR (which looks like it came out of the freezer).

LOL. Played!
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

Sure...it's likely a hoax. However, this sort of find would not be unbelievable, just unlikely.

Also, check out the forum you linked to.
Someone is having a good laugh.
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

Fun was had at my expense! HaHa!

Those are some beautiful little snakes, though. Would someone re-post the pics with the proper identification?

Thanks.
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Kent

0.1 Hypomelanistic striped cornsnake
1.0 Lavender cornsnake
1.2 Gray-banded kingsnakes, blairs phase
1.1 Oregon rubber boas

that's hilarious. well played.

Trimorphodon biscutatus
Sibon nebulata
Dipsas gaigeae
Crotalus lanomi

Hoax or not very cool C. lanomi whether fresh DOR or from the freezer. FYI everyone they were finally re-discovered a couple years ago.

I Googled those and here are the common names:

Trimorphodon biscutatus: lyre snake

Sibon nebulata: snail eating snake

Dipsas gaigeae: western thirst snake (snail eating snake)

Crotalus lannomi: autlan long-tailed rattlesnake

It was interesting to read about them while looking them up!
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Kent

0.1 Hypomelanistic striped cornsnake
1.0 Lavender cornsnake
1.2 Gray-banded kingsnakes, blairs phase
1.1 Oregon rubber boas

Are the first snake photos a Lyre snake? They look more like Pseudoelephe flavirufa. The Rattle snake looks pretty fresh to me, the wounds (mid-body and anterior)and these animals have been rediscovered.
Still neat.

Hi guy,
I am very impressed of your knowledge about snakes.I have to be honest and I am the opposite. I don't know nothing about them. So this evening I moved a rock around the little pound I did in the garden and I was in front of a little one. It seams it was little but quite long and in a small place, and I saw his tongue with two ends. I don't know what kind it is and as I would like to learn I tought you could help me.
thanks very much
Pombo