Louisiana Pinesnake vs. Slowinski's Cornsnake

Both live in the pine woods of deep eastern Texas. A: Dark brown blotches on buff, crowded toward the head in the Louisiana Pinesnake; reddish-brown to chestnut saddles edged in black in the Slowinski's Cornsnake. B: No stripe through the eye; a small pointed head in the Louisiana Pinesnake; a dark stripe from the eye back past the corner of the jaw in the Slowinski's Cornsnake. The pinesnake has keeled scales and hisses loudly; the cornsnake's scales are weakly keeled and it has a checkered belly.

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