Help identifying a DOA

[jkobylka]

My friend found this guy already DOA on the road in central Oklahoma. This is the only pic I have and would like some help IDing it...

I'm thinking the head looks kind of like a hognose, but the body pattern seems ALL wrong. I'm stumped...

Help!!

Justin

[Aaron Ward]

im guessing some sort of rat snake

[TooManyToys]

Interesting, other than the pattern it looks like a hog to me also.

[SerpentesCiconii]

Go with your gut... it's a hog.

John

[nootcakes]

I would Say copperhead but the head is like a drk brown or black...

[lord jackel]

Looks like a Kansas Glossy Snake to me.

http://www.californiaherps.com/nonca...e.elegans.html (edit...here is a link I found to some pictures of them)

[FloridaHogs]

That is an absolutely stunning little eastern hognose. They actually have quite a broad range of patterns and colors which seem to be local specific. I some areas they seem to look more like Pigmy Rattlers, in others Copperheads. Has often made me wonder if there might not be subspecies with them like there are with the westerns. I would LOVE to have a beauty like that in my collection. If you turn the pic on its side, so that the animal is facing you, their is no doubt that is a little hoggie head. One thing I know for certain is that you cannot ID an Eastern hognose simply by its pattern or color.

[jknudson]

I'd agree with Eastern Hog, nice one at that!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:H...atirhinos2.jpg

[Ophiuchus]

Eastern hog...very light-colored one at that!