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Ring-necked snake. Diadophis punctatus, commonly known as the ring-necked snake or ringneck snake, is a rather small, harmless species of colubrid snake found throughout much of the United States, as well as south in Central Mexico and as far north as Quebec, Canada. Ring-necked snakes are generally fossorial and somewhat secretive, by nature ...
The regal ringneck snake, unlike other subspecies, is almost exclusively ophiophagous, having a diet that consists primarily of other snakes, such as the earth snakes (genus Virginia) and the blackhead or flathead snakes (genus Tantilla). They have enlarged rear teeth (opisthoglypha) and a weak venom that serves to immobilize their small prey ...
Merrem, 1820. Diadophis punctatus edwardsii. — Dunn, 1920. Diadophis punctatus edwardsii, commonly known as the northern ringneck snake, is a subspecies of Diadophis punctatus, a snake in the family Colubridae. The subspecies is endemic to North America.
Diadophis arnyi. Kennicott, 1859. Diadophis regalis arnyi. — Cope, 1900. Diadophis punctatus arnyi. — Schmidt & Davis, 1941. Diadophis punctatus arnyi, also known commonly as the prairie ringneck snake, is a subspecies of small, thin snake in the family Dipsadidae. The subspecies is native to the Midwestern United States.
Description. Ventral side of Diadophis punctatus stictogenys, showing the characteristic coloration and paired blacks spots. Like D. p. punctatus, the Mississippi ringneck snake characteristically attains a maximum length of 44.5 centimetres (17.5 in). The head is black and the body dark gray, separated by a golden ring at the neck.
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The rinkhals (/ ˈrɪŋk (h) æls /; Hemachatus haemachatus), also known as the ringhals / ˈrɪŋhæls / [4] or ring-necked spitting cobra, [5] is a species of venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species is found in parts of southern Africa. [1][3] It is not a true cobra in that it does not belong to the genus Naja, but instead belongs ...
Gongylosoma longicauda, Peters's smooth snake or long-tailed ringneck, is a species of snake of the family Colubridae. [2] The snake is found in Indonesia , Brunei , Malaysia , Singapore , and Thailand .