Broad-banded Copperhead vs. Diamondback Watersnake
They meet along streams and lakes from Kansas to Texas (records share 40 one-degree squares). A: A heat pit and a vertical pupil in the Broad-banded Copperhead; no pit; a round pupil in the Diamondback Watersnake. B: Separate broad crossbands in the Broad-banded Copperhead; a dark chain or net around pale diamonds in the Diamondback Watersnake. C: Young: a bright yellow tail tip in the Broad-banded Copperhead; young: the dark net already, no bright tail tip in the Diamondback Watersnake. The copperhead is venomous: leave it alone.
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