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Night Snake (Hypsiglena torquata)
Description: Adults 12" to 20" in length. Color gray, yellowish, or beige, with dorsal row of dark brown spots. Row of smaller spots on sides; usually a large brown blotch on each side of neck.

 


Night Snake
Night Snake (Hypsiglena torquata)
Serpiente De La Noche - en Espaņol
Species Code: HYTO ...

NIGHT SNAKE FACTS
Description
The Night Snake is pale grey, beige or light brown with pairs of brown blotches down the back. There are usually three large black blotches on the neck. The underside is white or yellow.

The Night Snake is from the order Squamata. Species from this order are amphisbaenians, lizards or snakes. There are over 6,000 living species belonging to the squamata order - it is the largest order of all reptiles.

Perinet Night Snake
Sighting:
Chez Arol grounds, Masoala National Park, Toamasina province, Madagascar ...

Genus Hypsiglena (night snakes)
Genus Hypsirhynchus (Hispaniola cat-eyed snake)
Genus Ialtris (fanged snakes) ...

rats, woodrats, jackrabbits, desert cottontail, domestic cat, spotted skunk, kit fox, burrowing owl, Gambel's quail, poorwill, roadrunner, desert gecko, desert iguana, desert spiny lizard, western whiptail, gopher snake, coachwhip, night snake, ...

Leptodeira annulata (Cat-eyed Night Snake)
Leptophis ahaetulla (Lora)
Liophis cobellus (Mangrove Snake)
Liophis reginae (High Woods Coral)
Lycodon aulicus (Indian Wolf Snake)
Macrovipera lebetina
Naja naja (Indian Spectacled cobra) ...

See also: Snake, Lizard, Skink, Rhino, Copper