I found a snake In my friends backyard and it sounds to be a coral snake and yes I know they are very posionus and was handled with care and caught so the dogs wouldn't eat it and is now caged until I can release it. I need to identify him ir her so that I know where a good place to relocate is so my question is

Although Coral snakes are said to not live in kansas is it possible that onegot here some how??

If so where do I let it out?

Dose anyone have a pic I can compare to??

Oh yes and he/she looks like a regular garter snake at first but then you can see bands of red across its back and it almost touchs the yellow so thats what made me think it was coral cause I read somewhere that if the red touchs yellow it is a coral.


Its not a coral snake cause the yellow and green stripes go downa nd the red go side to side so what is it ???

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does it look like this ?

http://www.pitt.edu/~mcs2/herp/snake...oral_snake.jpg

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i googled snakes that live in Kansas are any of these your snake?
Longnose snake
Ground Snake
Milk Snake

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None of them

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0.1.0 Betta-Alphie
0.0.1 Apple snail- Mr. Bubbles
1.1.0 Mutt puppy's- Socks & Meeko
1.0.0 fieance-Brett

how bout this ?

http://deseretnews.com/photos/2194195.jpg

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If it doesn't look just like Ken's first pic, its not a coral. Corals also always have a black nose, they're very small, and have smooth scales. They always have yellow, black, and red banding. Never stripes and never other colors (at least in the coral snakes in the US). If yours has the shape of a garter snake, then I think that's exactly what it is.

If it was a garter snake, it could have been a western ribbon snake (Thamnophis proximus proximus) or a red-sided garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis).

Ribbon:
http://www.egsa.de/galerie/images/024.jpg

http://satori.com/_gifs/thamnophis.proximus4.jpg

Garter:
http://www.cnah.org/images/herps/400.jpg

http://www.sirtalis.de/fotos/sirtali...etalis_016.jpg

Ken's other link depicts a California red-sided garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis infernalis). Similar name and appearance to the common red-sided, but it wouldn't show up in Kansas.

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I hope all you found was a Garter. Jade, I love that Longnose Snake.

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I wish I could find a coral snake

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I thought there were melanistics around. I remember seeing something while reading the most recent all venomous issue of reptiles...

I suppose there could be a few melanistics out there. However, they'd be pretty rare. Was the article about wild ones or captive bred ones?

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