| Characteristics: * Bright yellow or orange single stripe along the * Yellow or orange stripe on each side of body on scale rows 3 and 4 (count from belly scales up) * Alternating rows of dark spots along each side of body * Top of the head is dark * Dark vertical bars on upper lips * Keeled scales * Nonvenomous * Diet: frogs and other aquatic vertebrates, insects, earthworms, and small mammals * Habitat: open grassland areas near wetlands * Distribution: statewide |
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