by cbcandice
Nov 19, 2003 6:35 PM · 3238 views · 35.0 k · 400 x 368
Keywords: snake
i really don't know what this snake is!!!! if any one can tell me what it is and what it eats, you may be the one to save this animal. all i know is that it isn't a smooth green.
Is it wild caught? It looks like a western yellow-bellied racer. How's its' temperment?
Fincity
Nov 24, 2003 6:09 PM
That is a Rough Green Tree Snake, It eats Insects and Worms. They live in trees near water in the wild,but can be found on the ground near underbrush.
snakeman54
Jan 11, 2004 10:19 AM
i would definanty say its a rough green snake.
snake12
Jan 11, 2004 12:05 PM
that is a rough green snake I had one for a day he tried to eat a cricket and got a mouth full of dirt and died four hours later
mattbrock
Jan 11, 2004 8:05 PM
I would agree with you all about it being a rough green, but they have highly keeled scales. Unless I'm mistaken it appears to have smooth scales like a racer. May be wrong though.
CamHanna
Jan 23, 2004 11:05 PM
Rating: 5/5
I think we may have to look out side of the US to figure out what it is. Scales look smooth. Head doesn't look colubrine and body is very skinny. I would say an arboreal tropic of some kind but that hardly narrows it down
Califia
Jan 24, 2004 8:27 AM
Rating: 5/5
That is definitely a rough green tree snake. I have caught and kept so many of those!! they are very docile snakes. only a few are mean and evil. they still make great pets that are easy to feed.
mattbrock
Jan 24, 2004 9:26 AM
Califia, i've also caught hundreds of rough green snakes, and it appears in this pic that this snake is not a rough green snake. It doesn't share the scale pattern with all of the ones I've caught. It very well may be something exotic. But it doesn't look like a rough green snake.
Buckydent
Jan 27, 2004 6:06 AM
Rating: 5/5
that is a bush snake
SiLeNcE
Jan 28, 2004 10:45 AM
Rating: 4/5
looks like Opheodrys vernalis aka smooth green snake
mattbrock
Jan 28, 2004 3:47 PM
Can't be a smooth green either. It's too large and the head is too long. I don't know what it is but it's not native to North America.
tomgfd
Apr 18, 2004 8:24 PM
it's a eastern yellow bellied racer
riiotgrrl
Apr 19, 2004 9:23 AM
well, he kinda liiks like a boomslang...good luck with handeling him. You probably sholdnt handle something that you are unfamiliar with. Although it most likely is a rough green snake, you never know.
CenTexDum
May 4, 2004 5:06 PM
Rating: 4/5
I agree with Matt about the scales being too smooth to be a rough green snake. At first glance, I would say that it is a Western Yellow-bellied racer. However, I am hesitant of this identification becuase your location shows to be New York. If this is a wild caught, I have no idea as to what you have, but if it were purchased then it would make more sense.
Arkansas_Herper
May 4, 2004 5:42 PM
is there any way to have a better picture of this snake posted? if it were an unaltered picture it would be much easier to decide what species it is. during the alteration of bringing the snake out and making the hands black and white is seems that some weird glare had become present on a few parts of the snake. the head looks like a rough green snake but i havent seen very many get that big. also the eyes are rather large which would lead me to suspect that it may be some sort of rear fanged tree snake from another country anywho you might not want to just randomly pick up snakes like that as a boomslang looks very similar to that snake and a boomslang is tied for #10 on the most toxic list. they dont bite all that often but if they do you are screwed.
