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Abbreviation Legend

  • (CE) - Criticially Endangered
  • (CI) - Critically Imperiled
  • (E) - Endangered
  • (I) - Introduced
  • (IM) - Imperiled
  • (NT) - Near Threatened
  • (T) - Threatened
  • (V) - Vulnerable
  • (**) - Recent Classification Change
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Snakes of Alabama

Snakes are scaly, legless, sometimes venomous reptiles having a long, tapering cylindrical body. Unlike lizards they lack limbs, external ear openings and eyelids. Their life styles vary: some are active by day, others at night. Some occupy terrestrial or subterranrean situations, others live in trees or in the water. All snakes are carnivorous and swallow their prey whole. They continue to increase in length throughout their lives, but the growth rate slows after maturity is reached. Snakes periodically shed their outer layer of skin, usually in one piece beginning at the tip of the snout.

The majority of snakes encounter in Alabama are nonvenomous, but often times confused with the 8 venomous species of snake found in Alabama.

There are 60 species/subspecies, representing 27 genus from 4 families, found in the State of Alabama, 8 of which are venomous (seven Vipers & one Elapid).

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Copperhead x Cottonmouth
(Agkistrodon conanti x piscivorus)

Eastern Copperhead
(Agkistrodon contortrix)

Cottonmouth
(Agkistrodon piscivorus)

Eastern Worm Snake
(Carphophis amoenus amoenus)

Northern Scarlet Snake
(Cemophora coccinea copei)

Northern Black Racer
(Coluber constrictor constrictor)

Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake
(Crotalus adamanteus)

Timber Rattlesnake
(Crotalus horridus)

Prairie Ringneck Snake
(Diadophis punctatus arnyi)

Northern Ringneck Snake
(Diadophis punctatus edwardsii)

Southern Ringneck Snake
(Diadophis punctatus punctatus)

Mississippi Ringneck Snake
(Diadophis punctatus stictogenys)
(V)

Eastern Indigo Snake
(Drymarchon couperi)

Eastern Mud Snake
(Farancia abacura abacura)

Western Mud Snake
(Farancia abacura reinwardtiie)

Rainbow Snake
(Farancia erytrogramma erytogramma)

Rough Earth Snake
(Haldea striatula)

Eastern Hognose Snake
(Heterodon platirhinos)

Southern Hognose Snake
(Heterodon simus)
(I)

Brahminy Blind Snake
(Indotyphlops braminus)
(**)

Prairie Kingsnake
(Lampropeltis calligaster)

Scarlet Kingsnake
(Lampropeltis elapsoides)

Eastern Kingsnake
(Lampropeltis getula)

Speckled Kingsnake
(Lampropeltis holbrooki)

Black Kingsnake
(Lampropeltis nigra)
(**)

Mole Kingsnake
(Lampropeltis rhombomaculata)

Common Milk Snake
(Lampropeltis triangulum)

Northern Florida Swamp Snake
(Liodytes pygaea pygaea)

Gulf Swamp Snake
(Liodytes rigida sinicola )

Eastern Coachwhip
(Masticophis flagellum flagellum )

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