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Help ID this Ratsnake
« on: January 04, 2010, 01:08:01 AM »
I found this beauty while going threw an old mobilehome trailer that was falling apart. it was under soem debree that I fliped over. ;) This was found in South Carolina over the weekend.






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Re: Help ID this Ratsnake
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2010, 02:01:42 AM »
Whatever she is, she is as cute as a button! :thumbsup:

No idea honestly what she might be.  Good luck :)
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Re: Help ID this Ratsnake
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2010, 11:51:10 AM »
tail pics please.
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Re: Help ID this Ratsnake
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2010, 12:46:55 PM »
will get some in just alil while for ya donnie

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Re: Help ID this Ratsnake
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2010, 02:06:03 PM »
It looks like there is some kind of pattern on the back but its hard to make out. Just wondering is it just normal ratsnake saddles.
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Re: Help ID this Ratsnake
« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2010, 02:21:12 PM »
There are only two kinds of ratsnakes that naturally occur in S. Carolina. The black ratsnake and the yellow ratsnake. Depends on where you look the are called the black phase and yellow phase of the eastern ratsnake.
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Re: Help ID this Ratsnake
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2010, 02:21:59 PM »
nope it has no saddles at all  the markings on the bark are similar to a strpe phase that i have seen before but they are broke up into more like dashes.

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Re: Help ID this Ratsnake
« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2010, 03:07:44 PM »
Could I possibly go out on a limb and say a new variation of albino for the yellow rat snake.
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Re: Help ID this Ratsnake
« Reply #8 on: January 04, 2010, 04:12:39 PM »
that's what I was looking for was saddles or striping. The yellows are generally striped. Being an albino makes it a little harder to tell. Could it be a non native species that was someone's escaped pet?
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Re: Help ID this Ratsnake
« Reply #9 on: January 04, 2010, 04:45:41 PM »
that's what I was looking for was saddles or striping. The yellows are generally striped. Being an albino makes it a little harder to tell. Could it be a non native species that was someone's escaped pet?

The striping is what made me think it could possibly be some sort of albino yellow maybe. It could be very possible that it is someones escaped pet, rat snakes are really good at finding any kind of exit there might be.
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