{{short description, None ''This list needs pictures and descriptions for each snake listed to fit the goals of the Snake Project'' According to a 2012 study, Georgia has 15.67 snakes per square mile, surpassing Arizona's 15.2 for the largest number in the country.

Snakes

Non- Venomous

Worm Snake (''Carphophis amoenus'') Scarlet Snake (''Cemophora coccinea'') Black Racer (''

Coluber constrictor The eastern racer (''Coluber constrictor'') is a species of nonvenomous snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to North America and Central America. Eleven subspecies, including the nominotypical subspecies, are recognized, wh ...

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Ringneck Snake ''Diadophis punctatus'', commonly known as the ring-necked snake or ringneck snake, is a harmless species of colubrid snake found throughout much of the United States, central Mexico, and south-eastern Canada. Ring-necked snakes are secretive, no ...

(''Diadophis punctatus'') Indigo Snake (''Drymarchon corais'') Corn Snake (''Pantherophis guttatus'') Rat Snake (''Pantherophis obsoletus'') Mud Snake (''Farancia abacura'') Rainbow Snake (''Farancia erytrogramma'')

Eastern Hognose Snake The eastern hog-nosed snake (''Heterodon platirhinos''), also known as the spreading adder Wright, A.H., and A.A. Wright (1957). ''Handbook of Snakes of the United States and Canada''. (in 2 volumes). Ithaca and London: Comstock Publishing Assoc ...

(''Heterodon platirhinos'') Southern Hognose Snake (''Heterodon simus'')

Mole Kingsnake ''Lampropeltis calligaster'' is a species of kingsnake known commonly as the prairie kingsnake or yellow-bellied kingsnake. Geographic range Prairie kingsnakes are found mostly in the midwestern and southeastern United States although they can ...

(''Lampropeltis calligaster'')

Eastern Kingsnake ''Lampropeltis getula'', commonly known as the eastern kingsnake, Conant R (1975). ''A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Second Edition''. (First published in 1958). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 42 ...

(''Lampropeltis getula'') Milk Snake (''Lampropeltis triangulum'') Scarlet Kingsnake (''Lampropeltis triangulum elapsoides'') Coachwhip (''Masticophis flagellum'') Redbelly Water Snake (''Nerodia erythrogaster'') Banded Water Snake (''Nerodia fasciata'')

Green Water Snake The green water snake (''Nerodia cyclopion'') is a common species of nonvenomous natricine snake endemic to the southeastern United States. Geographic range ''N. cyclopion'' is distributed from the Florida panhandle westward to Louisiana, ...

(''Nerodia floridana'') Northern Water Snake (''Nerodia sipedon'') Brown Water Snake (''Nerodia taxispilota'') Rough Green Snake (''Opheodrys aestivus'') Pine Snake (''Pituophis melanoleucus'')

Striped Crayfish Snake The striped crayfish snake (''Liodytes alleni'') is a species of semiaquatic North American snake in the family Colubridae. The species derives its common name from its principal prey, crayfish. This snake is also called Allen's snake, the st ...

(''Liodytes alleni'')

Glossy Crayfish Snake The glossy crayfish snake (''Liodytes rigida rigida'') is a subspecies of nonvenomous snake endemic to the southeastern United States. Its scientific name, ''rigida'', derives from the fact that it is comparatively stiff. Description It is a shi ...

(''Regina rigida'') Queen snake (''Regina septemvittata'')

Pine Woods Snake The pine woods snake (''Rhadinaea flavilata''), also commonly known as the yellow-lipped snake or the brown-headed snake, is a species of secretive colubrid found in scattered locations across the south-eastern United States. ''Rhadinaea flavi ...

(''Rhadinaea flavilata'') Black Swamp Snake (''Seminatrix pygaea'')

Brown Snake Brown snake may refer to: * species of the genus ''Pseudonaja'', highly venomous snakes native to Australia * species of the genus ''Rhadinaea'', the graceful brown snakes, snakes endemic to North America and Central America * species of the genus ...

(''Storeria dekayi'')

Red-bellied Snake ''Storeria occipitomaculata'', commonly known as the redbelly snake or the red-bellied snake, is a species of snake endemic to North America (Canada and the United States). Description ''S. occipitomaculata'' is a small woodland species that ...

(''Storeria occipitomaculata'') Florida Brown Snake (''Storeria victa'') Southeastern Crowned Snake (''Tantilla coronata'') Central Florida Crowned Snake (''Tantilla relicta'')

Eastern Ribbon Snake ''Thamnophis sauritus sauritus'', the eastern ribbon snake or common ribbon snake, is one of four subspecies of the ribbon snake found in the southeastern United States. Some similar species are the western ribbon snake, common garter snake, ...

(''Thamnophis sauritus'')

Eastern Garter Snake The eastern garter snake (''Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis'') is a medium-sized snake indigenous to North America. Taxonomy and etymology The scientific name ''Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis'' is a combination of Ancient Greek and New Latin that me ...

(''Thamnophis sirtalis'')

Rough Earth Snake ''Virginia striatula'' (formerly ''Haldea striatula''), commonly called the rough earth snake, is a species of nonvenomous Natricinae, natricine colubrid snake native to the Southeastern United States. Taxonomy The species was first described ...

(''Virginia striatula'')

Smooth Earth Snake The smooth earth snake (''Virginia valeriae'') is a species of nonvenomous natricine colubrid snake native to the eastern half of the United States. Etymology The specific name or epithet, ''valeriae'', is in honor of Valeria Biddle Blaney (1 ...

(''Virginia valeriae'')

Venomous

Vipers Copperhead (''Agkistrodon contortrix'') Cottonmouth (Water moccasin) (''Agkistrodon piscivorus'') Eastern diamondback rattlesnake (''Crotalus adamanteus'') Timber rattlesnake (''Crotalus horridus'') Pigmy rattlesnake (''Sistrurus miliarius'') Coral snakes

eastern coral snake ''Micrurus fulvius'', commonly known as the eastern coral snake, Behler John L.; King, F. Wayne (1979). ''The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Reptiles and Amphibians''. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 743 pp., 657 color plates. LCCCN 7 ...

(''Micrurus fulvius'')

Resources

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/nowiki> Lists of snakes of the United States">Georgia Lists of fauna of Georgia (U.S. state)">Snakes Snakes are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes . Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joi ...