Can you identify this South American snake? The photo comes courtesy of Paul Nicholas, who spotted the snake (which was about 1 m long) while it was crossing a river below the Great Falls and King George Falls in the (mostly unexplored) upper Essequibo region of Guyana. The strange-looking lumps are water drops. Paul’s guides were not able to identify the snake – can you? I confess I haven’t tried too hard… field guides on Guyanan snakes are thin on the ground round here…
But, with its enormous eye and parallel dorsal strikes, the animal (which is a ‘colubrid’) should be identifiable (if, that is, it belongs to a known species).
For previous Tet Zoo posts on snakes see…
- Stupidly large snakes, the story so far
- Scolecophidians: seriously strange serpents
- Side-stabbing stiletto snakes
- Terrestrial elapids, take 2
- Why do some snakes have horns?
- Close encounters with the Father of Death
- Not two, not three, but FOUR anacondas
- The tiniest snakes
- “What was that cute little Mexican snake?”, and other musings…
- Snake 195 mm long eats centipede 140 mm long. Centipede too big. Snake dies.
- Micropechis ikaheka, the Small-eyed snake