|
Characteristics:
* A dull brown to greenish body
color
* Black bars on lips
* Brown head with yellow spots
* Yellow or orange middorsal stripe on each side of body on scale rows 2 and 3 (counting from
the belly scales up)
* Keeled scales
* Nonvenomous
* Diet: fish,
frogs and other aquatic vertebrates, insects, and earthworms
*
Habitat: grassy
areas near ponds and streams
*
Distribution: Black
Hills
Back to Snake Index |
