Lone Star Field Guide to the Snakes of Florida Book

	Acknowledgments	viii
	Preface	xi
	Introduction-Paradise Almost Lost	1
	Florida Snake Habitats	8
	Snakes and the Law: State and Federal Regulations	31
	Snake Venom Poisoning	33
	Venom Potency	45
	Scalation	46
	Typhlopidae
	Blind Snakes
1	Brahminy Blind Snake, Ramphotyphlops braminus	48
	Colubridae
	Small Burrowing Snakes
2	Southeastern Crowned Snake, Tantilla coronata	50
3	Peninsula Crowned Snake, Tantilla relicta relicta	52
4	Central Florida Crowned Snake, Tantilla relicta neilli	53
5	Coastal Dunes Crowned Snake, Tantilla relicta pamlica	54
6	Rim Rock Crowned Snake, Tantilla oolitica	56
7	Marsh Brown Snake, Storeria dekayi limnetes	57
8	Florida Brown Snake, Storeria dekayi victa	58
9	Midland Brown Snake, Storeria dekayi wrightorum	59
10	Florida Redbelly Snake, Storeria occipitomaculata obscura	61
11	Rough Earth Snake, Virginia striatula	62
12	Eastern Earth Snake, Virginia valeriae valeriae	63
13	Pine Woods Snake, Rhadinaea flavilata	64
14	Southern Ringneck Snake, Diadophis punctatus punctatus	66
15	Key Ringneck Snake, Diadophis punctatus acricus	67
	Garter and Ribbon Snakes
16	Eastern Garter Snake, Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis	68
17	Bluestripe Garter Snake, Thamnophis sirtalis similis	69
18	Eastern Ribbon Snake, Thamnophis sauritus sauritus	71
19	Peninsula Ribbon Snake, Thamnophis sauritus sackenii	72
20	Bluestripe Ribbon Snake, Thamnophis sauritus nitae	73
	Aquatic Snakes
21	Redbelly Water Snake, Nerodia erythrogaster erythrogaster	74
22	Yellowbelly Water Snake, Nerodia erythrogaster flavigaster	76
23	Banded Water Snake, Nerodia fasciata fasciata	77
24	Florida Water Snake, Nerodia fasciata pictiventris	79
25	Mississippi Green Water Snake, Nerodia cyclopion	81
26	Florida Green Water Snake, Nerodia floridana	147
27	Brown Water Snake, Nerodia taxispilota	148
28	Midland Water Snake, Nerodia sipedon pleuralis	150
29	Gulf Salt Marsh Snake, Nerodia clarkii clarkii	151
30	Atlantic Salt Marsh Snake, Nerodia clarkii taeniata	152
31	Mangrove Salt Marsh Snake, Nerodia clarkii compressicauda	153
32	Glossy Crayfish Snake, Regina rigida rigida	155
33	Gulf Crayfish Snake, Regina rigida sinicola	156
34	Striped Crayfish Snake, Regina alleni	157
35	Queen Snake, Regina septemvittata	158
36	Eastern Mud Snake, Farancia abacura abacura	159
37	Western Mud Snake, Farancia abacura reinwardtii	161
38	Rainbow Snake, Farancia erytrogramma erytrogramma	162
39	South Florida Rainbow Snake, Farancia erytrogramma seminola	165
40	North Florida Swamp Snake, Seminatrix pygaea pygaea	166
41	South Florida Swamp Snake, Seminatrix pygaea cyclas	167
	Green Snakes
42	Rough Green Snake, Opheodrys aestivus	168
	Whipsnakes, Racers, and Indigo Snakes
43	Eastern Coachwhip, Masticophis flagellum flagellum	169
44	Brownchin Racer, Coluber constrictor helvigularis	171
45	Southern Black Racer, Coluber constrictor priapus	173
46	Everglades Racer, Coluber constrictor pauldicola	174
47	Eastern Indigo Snake, Drymarchon corais couperi	175
	Brown-blotched Terrestrial Snakes
48	Eastern Hognose Snake, Heterodon platirhinos	178
49	Southern Hognose Snake, Heterodon simus	180
50	Black Pine Snake, Pituophis melanoleucas lodingi	182
51	Florida Pine Snake, Pituophis melanoleucus mugitus	184
52	Corn Snake, Elaphe guttata guttata	185
53	Gray Rat Snake, Elaphe obsoleta spiloides	188
54	Yellow Rat Snake, Elaphe obsoleta quadrivittata	190
55	Everglades Rat Snake, Elaphe obsoleta rossalleni	191
56	Short-tailed Snake, Stilosoma extenuatum	192
57	Mole Kingsnake, Lampropeltis calligaster rhombomaculata	194
58	South Florida Mole Kingsnake, Lampropeltis calligaster occipitolineata	195
	Large Kingsnakes
59	Eastern Kingsnake, Lampropeltis getula getula	196
60	Florida Kingsnake, Lampropeltis getula floridana	198
	Red-and-black-banded Snakes
61	Northern Scarlet Snake, Cemophora coccinea copei	201
62	Florida Scarlet Snake, Cemophora coccinea coccinea	202
63	Scarlet Kingsnake, Lampropeltis triangulum elapsoides	203
	Elapidae
	Coral Snakes
64	Eastern Coral Snake, Micrurus fulvius fulvius	207
	Viperidae
	Moccasins
65	Southern Copperhead, Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix	211
66	Eastern Cottonmouth, Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus	213
67	Florida Cottonmouth, Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti	214
	Rattlesnakes
68	Dusky Pigmy Rattlesnake, Sistrurus miliarius barbouri	217
69	Timber Rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus	219
70	Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake, Crotalus adamanteus	222
	The Evolution of Snakes	226
	Glossary	240
	Bibliography	247
	Index	266