Need help IDing snake

[MTA]

Saw this dead on the road. Wondering what snake it is

 

[toddnjoyce]

Looks like dead copperhead.

 

[Axxe55]

Looks like a copperhead. Venomous BTW.

 

[TxStetson]

That's one of the good copperheads.

 

[Hoji]

Seriously? Lol. One of the few actual pictures of a dead copperhead ever posted here.

Most folks here post dead rat snakes, water snakes, once even a garter snake all misidentified as something venomous.

Then when called on it double down on their ignorance.

 

[Axxe55]

@MTA89 can you measure that one? I'm curious as to how long it is. Hard to tell in the picture.

 

[TreyG-20]

Trouser snake

 

[FireInTheWire]

Looks like your were traveling down copperhead road.

 

[MTA]

Seriously? Lol. One of the few actual pictures of a dead copperhead ever posted here.

Most folks here post dead rat snakes, water snakes, once even a garter snake all misidentified as something venomous.

Then when called on it double down on their ignorance.

Yea ive never seen one before in person before. I thought the pattern was different on them but this snake looks young so maybe it is not mature in pattern yet.

i could tell it was venomous by the eye shape but wanted to confirm. Dont want my dogs getting bit

 

[MTA]

@MTA89 can you measure that one? I'm curious as to how long it is. Hard to tell in the picture.

Ill go back out once I get home

 

[gll]

@MTA89 can you measure that one? I'm curious as to how long it is. Hard to tell in the picture.

I'm in for 32"...

 

[Dad_Roman]

Yea....bad juju right there

 

[Kayt00]

The juveniles will usually have a yellow or chartreuse color on their tails, that color goes away as they mature.

 

[Texasjack]

When a copperhead is resting on dead oak leaves, they match almost perfectly. I stepped on one while looking straight at it. Fortunately, he didn't get me, but my shotgun chopped him up at that range.

 

[Axxe55]

Copperheads blend in so well, that many times we see them, without really seeing them.

Luckily, all of the ones I have killed around our house are less than 24" most of the time. Usually a whack with a shovel or machete takes care of them.

 

[cygunner]

I enjoy the Animal Planet series Lone Star Law. Season before this or maybe a couple of seasons ago wardens went to investigate a man that had been trapping them around a school somewhere in the Greenville area. Without a doubt he had caught the biggest copperheads that I ever saw and had a bunch of them in a cage. Was going to sell/give them to some researcher. Wardens gave him the okey doke.
Conversely somebody had killed a timber rattler and posted it on Facebook. They busted him; timber rattlers are endangered and protected in Texas.

 

[lonestardiver]

The juveniles will usually have a yellow or chartreuse color on their tails, that color goes away as they mature.

Usually but not always.

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[lonestardiver]

Yea ive never seen one before in person before. I thought the pattern was different on them but this snake looks young so maybe it is not mature in pattern yet.

i could tell it was venomous by the eye shape but wanted to confirm. Dont want my dogs getting bit

Eye shape is not always a given, the amount of available light can cause the pupil to be dilated and not appear as a vertical slit in low light.

One thing is if you look at the pattern, you see a Hersheys kiss shaoed dark splotches.

I have learned that it is not a single feature you identify a snake by but you look for several features and or a patterns.

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[Axxe55]

Eye shape is not always a given, the amount of available light can cause the pupil to be dilated and not appear as a vertical slit in low light.

One thing is if you look at the pattern, you see a Hersheys kiss shaoed dark splotches.

I have learned that it is not a single feature you identify a snake by but you look for several features and or a patterns.

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Triangular shaped head is a pretty good indicator for venomous snakes in the viper family.

 

[Big Green]

Looks like your were traveling down copperhead road.

You beat me to it.