vgabndo - 11-15-2004 at 07:51 PM
Can you name this guy? The locals call him Coralito, but that is a misnomer. A beautiful little animal, and trippy to watch in his natural habitat.
Chilomeniscus
gringorio - 11-16-2004 at 07:13 AM
Hmmmm. Maybe genus Chilomeniscus? A sand snake but what species I don't know. It looks more like the C. savagei from Isla Cerralvo...
Bob and Susan - 11-16-2004 at 07:28 AM
For the rest of us simpletons....
Sand Snake?
http://www.toddshikingguide.com/FloraFauna/Fauna16.htm
ps
Snakes are creepy YUK
[Edited on 11-16-2004 by Bob and Susan]
Bruce R Leech - 11-16-2004 at 07:32 AM
Striped sand snake?
vgabndo - 11-16-2004 at 01:56 PM
Gringorio: You da man! Commonly Variable Sand Snake or Banded Sand Snake. I understand that several which were previously thought to be seperate
species have been joined together as:
Chilomenscus Stramineus.
In the silty sand of the San Nicolas arroyo they can move almost as fast just under the surface as they can on top. They are beautiful little
creatures, feared by some of the locals, confused with Coral Snakes.
gringorio - 11-16-2004 at 03:41 PM
Cool! I remember seeing kids in Bahia de los Angeles play with one. They had caught it near the beach. Fearless, the kids were. Isn't there
something to the stripes disorienting predators as the snake burrows into the sand?
JESSE - 11-16-2004 at 03:59 PM
We call it coralillo over here.
...Well....
Mexray - 11-16-2004 at 04:38 PM
I've heard of SAND SHARKS, now we also have SAND SNAKES...what's next, I suppose you're going to tell me there are also....SAND DOLLARS!...
...or SAND FLEAS,
...or SAND SCRIPT,
...or SAND ---------------------.
Can you ID this snake?
David K - 11-16-2004 at 06:41 PM
This fellow was southeast of Mision San Borja near old Rancho San Gregorio. Someone ID'ed him for me when I first showed this photo on Amigos de Baja
a few years ago. Let's see if you snake-ologists give me the same answer!
Are those things poisonous?
Debra - 11-17-2004 at 02:41 PM
Brendan (age 11) has decided he wants to catch one on our next trip to Bahia... 
Neal Johns - 11-17-2004 at 02:56 PM
Nope, not poisonous, well maybe if you eat too many. 