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Characteristics:
* Bright yellow or
orange single stripe along the
middle of the back
* Yellow or orange
stripe on each side of body on scale rows 3 and 4 (count from belly scales up)
* Alternating rows of
dark spots along each side of body
* Top of the head is
dark
* Dark vertical bars on
upper lips
* Keeled scales
* Nonvenomous
* Diet:
frogs and other aquatic vertebrates, insects, earthworms, and small mammals
* Habitat:
open grassland areas near wetlands
* Distribution:
statewide
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