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Crotalus intergrades in Northeast Florida ?
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by pygmybait on March 31, 2004
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A friend of mine called me up the other day to ask about a snake that he accidentially stepped on and killed last fall. He is a member of a local hunting club and has made a very good habit of catching snakes that he finds and passing them on to me so that the other hunters will not kill them on sight. Anyway, he is very familiar with all of our native venomous species here in St. Johns County which makes me even more curious about the snake in question. Here is his description: about three feet in length, light tan with some sort of dark pattern across the back (not a diamond OR a chevron) and about three inches of rattle. He was trailing a wounded deer at the time and did not think to bag the snake or come look for it later. Could this have been an Eastern Diamondback / Canebrake intergrade this far southeast? I'll try to get a more detailed description from him and see what you guys think? Either way, I'm pretty excited about it as I'm sure it wasn't something we would normally see around here.
Matt
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RE: Crotalus intergrades in Northeast Florida ?
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by pygmybait on April 1, 2004
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New info on this snake - acording to the guy who saw it;
1) very broad head in relation to the neck (Like an EDB).
2) The last 5 inches or so of the tail was black w/ no pattern discernable.
3) Rusty stripe from head to middle of the back and broken stripe from there down to the black tip of the tail.
4) The pattern on the back was dark grey to black rectangular shapes - Not diamonds or chevrons.
I realise that this is very little to go on and without an animal in hand or a photograph it's hard to say either way. Anyone care to speculate?
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