RE: CLOSE TO THE CREATURES WITH PAPA - Garter Snake

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natator88 (60)in #photography • 8 years ago

If you're interested, you can give me the location (near a city or in a county will suffice) and I'll send your picture to a friend of mine who is ridiculously good at identifying herps.

8 years ago in #photography by natator88 (60)

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papa-pepper (80) 8 years ago

This one was somewhere in Missouri... not even sure where, as I was all over that state the other day. With 35 individual species of Garter Snakes plus the Ribbon Snakes varieties, I wasn't about to open that can of worms... er, snakes, right now.

If your friend wants to have a go at it, I'll try to remember the city, but all I know right now is Missouri. Thanks!

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natator88 (60) 8 years ago

He replied really fast! Here's what he said:

Based in the Photo I'd call it a Red-Sided Garter Snake. especially if he is somewhere in the central-north western side of the state. It's typically just considered a subspecies of eastern garter though so it could just be an eastern in the "zone of overlap" between the "two" species.