black and yellow snake in my yard.

I thought about tigrinus also, and I can't seem to remember where I was reading about the poison the snakes were harvesting from their prey and storing in their neck. I thought it was subminiatus, but maybe it WAS tigrinus... or possibly both utilize it... I'll look around when I have more time1

it does appear to be tigrinus... I think what I was thinking about was when I kept subminiatus, I had read about this on trigrinus and noticed my female had this same exact gland on the top of her neck... possibly, that species harvests poison also but it's not as well known? I am not sure. She would arch her neck like that and stick it out, while at the same time flattening her neck to show off her red coloration, when she felt disturbed by my presence.

http://www.animalpicturesarchive.com...id=2&did=26284

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Originally Posted by aSnakeLovinBabe

it does appear to be tigrinus... I think what I was thinking about was when I kept subminiatus, I had read about this on trigrinus and noticed my female had this same exact gland on the top of her neck... possibly, that species harvests poison also but it's not as well known? I am not sure. She would arch her neck like that and stick it out, while at the same time flattening her neck to show off her red coloration, when she felt disturbed by my presence.

http://www.animalpicturesarchive.com...id=2&did=26284

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Found the paper.....

http://www.venomdoc.com/downloads/0610785104v1.pdf