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A method to help differentiate between venomous and non-venomous tricolor snakes in North America is found in an enormous variety of popular phrases, which are usually some variation of "Red touches black, friend of jack, red touches yellow, kill a fellow", "red on yellow, kill a fellow; red on black, venom lack", or "if red touches yellow, you ...
Collett's black snake, Collett's cobra, Collett's snake, Down's tiger snake: Australia Pseudechis guttatus De Vis, 1905: blue-bellied black snake, spotted black snake: south-eastern Queensland and northern New South Wales. Pseudechis pailsei (Hoser, 1998) eastern dwarf mulga snake, eastern pygmy mulga snake, false king brown snake: Australia
Some species, such as the scarlet kingsnake, Mexican milk snake, and red milk snake, have coloration and patterning that can cause them to be confused with the highly venomous coral snakes. One of the mnemonic rhymes to help people distinguish between coral snakes and their nonvenomous lookalikes in the United States is "red on black, a friend ...
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A simple, small black snake tattoo can be subtle yet impactful. Placement on the wrist, finger or ankle is popular. One thing's for sure—the snake tattoo trend is more than skin-deep.
A medium-sized (53–108 cm total length) snake with a distinctive sequence of red, black, and white rings (tricolor dyads: Savage and Slowinski 1990; these are similar, but yet different from the triads of Zweifel 1952b) in which relatively narrow white rings are always bordered by black rings, and red coloration, which can occur as rings or bands, borders alternate black rings (Zweifel 1952b ...
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The California mountain kingsnake (Lampropeltis zonata) is a species of nonvenomous colubrid snake that is endemic to North America. It is a coral snake mimic, having a similar pattern consisting of red, black, and yellow on its body, but the snake is completely harmless.