Mud Snake
Farancia abacura
Photo by JD Willson
Description: Mud snakes are large, heavy-bodied snakes with shiny black backs and numerous red bars extending up each side. The belly of this species is checkered red or pink and black.
Mud Snake
The Mud Snake is a fairly long snake, growing to be between 38 and 80 inches long. It is shiny blueish-black in color with dark pink or red bars across its belly that cross onto its sides.
Mud Snake (Farancia abacura)
No photo of the Mud Snake available.
The Mud Snake is from the order Squamata. Species from this order are amphisbaenians, lizards or snakes.
HABITAT: Mud snakes inhabit swamps, marshes, ponds, and slow moving mud-bottom streams. They prefer aquatic areas with heavy vegetation, like beaver ponds with swampy margins.
Mud Snake (Farancia abacura)
Photos by J.D. Willson unless otherwise noted ...
Western Mud Snakes are very inoffensive and never bite. They will, however, expose their brightly colored belly pattern when threatened, and will even poke and prod with their pointed tail at anyone who picks them up. Of course, this can do no harm.
In nature, bold colors and a contrasting pattern (such as the red and black belly of a Mud Snake) is often a sign of something "dangerous" or perhaps "bad tasting".
eastern mud snake (Farancia abacura abacura)
eastern mud turtle (Kinosternon subrubrum subrubrum)
eastern painted turtle (Chrysemys picta picta)
eastern ribbon snake (Thamnophis sauritus sauritus)
eastern river cooter (Pseudemys concinna concinna) ...
Family Colubridae: Homalopsinae (the mud snakes): Australian bockadam, Cerberus australis
Richardson’s mangrove snake, Myron richardsonii
White-bellied mangrove snake, Fordonia leucobalia
Family Hydrophiidae - the true sea snakes ~ 58 species ...
Description: Rainbow snakes are large, heavy-bodied snakes closely related to mud snakes. Many people consider them to be among the prettiest snakes in the United States.
The three-toed amphiuma is likely to play the role of top predator in many aquatic systems. Amphiuma predators include cottonmouths, alligators, and mud snakes. They are able to defend themselves from both predators and people with a powerful bite.
 See also: Snake, Reptile, Cottonmouth, Amphiuma, Siren
  
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