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Unidentified Snake
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by triplecee on April 1, 2005
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I was on a tour of the Mayan ruins of Tikal in Guatemala and near the end of the tour as we were walking back along the road I nearly stepped on a stick that moved. Clearly it was a snake that sort of froze where it lay at my feet. Not being too bright about snakes I opened up my camera and took a picture of it. The tour guide suggested that I not move too fast and it slithered off the road into the bush. He said it was a Fer-de-Lance but to my untrained eye the picture I have doesn't look like any of the pictures I have found on the web. It does have an interesting shaped head though.
Can you suggest how I can find out what type of snake it is? I do have digital photo with pretty good resolution.
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by bush_viper17 on April 1, 2005
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You should go to the photos section of this website and upload a photo in the unidentified snake section at the bottom of the page. After the webmaster puts the photo up we can see it and indentify it.
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by paleoherp on April 2, 2005
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Hi thanks for the e mail it looks to me like rainforest hognose viper ( porthidium nasutum ) about 10 - 14 inches in length which have an up turn snout which is what it looks like it has , the only other '' porthidium'' in gutemala is porthidium orphryomegas i think this one is a rain forest hognose viper .
THANKS
SHAUN
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