The Ring-Necked Snake is a small and slender snake. Its ground color is olive, brown, gray or black. Just behind the neck and around the neck is a light colored ring (hence the name), which ordinarily is yellow, cream, orange or red..
Regal Ring-necked Snake
Sighting:
Valley of Fires State Park, Lincoln County, New Mexico ...
Ring-necked Snake (Diadophis punctatus edwardii)
Description: A small black or gray, shiny scaled snake with a yellow ring around its neck. Michigan ring-neck snakes have a plain yellow belly, sometimes with a few black dots down the midline.
Ring-necked Snake Diadophis punctatus ssp. Fairly common statewide, but less abundant than in the past. A frequently encountered small woodland snake. Alabama populations are intergradient combinations involving two or all of three subspecies, D. p.
Northern Ring-necked Snake Eastern Gartersnake (Tucker Co.)
Cheat Mountain Salamander (Tucker Co.) Cheat Mt. Salamander under
a rock out of the forest! ...
NORTHERN RING-NECKED SNAKE
Diadophis punctatus edwardsii
Length 10-15 in.
(25-38 cm.) ...
The Prairie Ring-necked Snake inhabits the Driftless Area in southwestern Wisconsin, with records from as far north as Pierce County and east to Sauk County.
Although some keepers have fed captive coral snakes frozen then thawed ring-necked snakes with regularity, other experienced keepers argue that ring-necks, live or dead, can be fatal to a coral snake that eats them.
 See also: Snake, Rat snake, Milk Snake, Green Snake, Water Snake
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