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The northern scarlet snake grows to 36–51 cm (14-20 inches) in total length (including tail). It is typically a gray or white base color, with 17-24 red blotches bordered by black that go down the back. The black borders on the blotches often join on the lower sides of the snake forming a line down the length of the body.
C. coccinea is found only in the United States.It is native to peninsular Florida, [9] and found in southeastern Texas, eastern Oklahoma, Arkansas, parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware; with disjunct populations in New Jersey and central Missouri.
Maryland honored the diamondback terrapin in 1994, but the mascot of Maryland's main state university in College Park has been the Terrapins or "Terps" since 1932. In that year, the football coach, who had encountered the animal as a boy near the Chesapeake Bay , proposed it as a mascot to oppose the Wildcats, Tigers, and such of enemy teams.
Florida wildlife officials are caring for a rare two-headed snake after a family found the strange reptile in Palm Harbor. The southern black racer is bicephalic, meaning it has two heads, likely ...
1.1 Black Racers (Coluber) ... This list of snakes of Florida includes all snakes in the U.S. state of Florida. Non-venomous
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The Florida scarlet snake grows to 36–51 cm (14–20 in) in total length (body + tail), record 78 cm (31 in). It is typically gray or white, with red blotches bordered by black along its back. The black borders on the blotches often join on the lower sides of the snake forming a line down the length of the body. Its belly is a uniform white.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers last Thursday used a device that launched a charge into the snakes’ heads, killing more than 30 of the reptiles — all but one ...