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Identify !
If you have a photograph of a snake which you are not able to identify, send it to me and i'll post it in this section. Let the experts identify it for you. If you think you know which snake it is, just mail me. You can also leave a post at our forums under the section 'Unidentified' ...
I'd caught this snake in my college garden at night. As its a small snake, i am not sure if its a Greenkeelback.
What do you say . . . ?
Harikrishnan: It is a juvenile Green keelback (Macropisthodon plumbicolor). As it becomes adult, it will loose the patterns on the neck and will become plain bright green. It can hood up like a cobra. It is found in forested areas in peninsular India, and is related to the water snakes. It is a rear fanged snake (huge fangs), lives on the forest floor and eats mainly toads. It's not a very common snake.
Cheers Hari
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I caught this snake near a patch of forest that stretches around my university, 'Karnatak University Dharwad' in the morning. I believe its a Wolf Snake (Lycodon aulicus). I guess i was pretty lucky to find this snake, that too during morning time (Its a nocturnal species).
It has got cross bands running all over its body like the deadly Krait.
Harikrishnan: That looks like a wolfsnake (Lycodon sp.) (dead??!) Can u please put information on scale count also along with the pics?
Yup, unfortunately that is a dead snake. I'd caught this snake at around 10 am near a patch of forest that stretches around the library of my university. People who had seen it there wanted to kill it as they thought its the deadly krait. I told'em its a harmless wolfie and relocated the snake to a much safer core of the forest.
At around 4 pm, i heard that some people were killing a snake near library. I left my class n ran to the spot. By the time i went there, it was a dead snake. Seems the snake wandered back to the same place, wonder why ! May be i should've relocated much farther away in the forest :(
Scale count: Well, by the time i got it (dead snake) to my place to photograph it, it'd bathed in its own blood and was smelling horrible. It was kinda late also, so couldn go for the scale count. Next time, i'll make sure i'll put the scale count along with the photographs.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Though its not a snake, its one of my favorite reptiles. It is frequently encountered even in urban areas. I believe its the Garden Lizard (Calotes sp).
Do you know which species is it?
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Jungle Calotes
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