What snake is this ?

[tRoN]

Umhlanga Ridge area

 

[DapperDanMan]

How long ago were you bitten? (Timestamp)

Remember the first hour is the golden hour!

 

[DapperDanMan]

@tRoN

If you survive this ordeal, make sure you trade in your potato phone for a phone that has a camera that is also not a potato.

 

[RedViking]

Could have taken a worse pic?

Looks harmless egg eater

 

[FiestaST]

OP asking for advice about the kind of snake que comments about OP's (potato) camera

 

[RedViking]

 

[r0ckf1re]

African python maybe ?

 

[lkpat]

Umhlanga Ridge area

Night adder.

 

[lkpat]

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Nah, rhombic night adder



Rhombic/ common egg eater mimmics this guy. Night adder can give a nasty bite but not deadly.

The telltale is the broad chevron behind the head and pointed snout while the eggeater gas a rounded snout and usually double chevron or less distinct chevron on the neck.

 

[RedViking]

Nah, rhombic night adder

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Rhombic/ common egg eater mimmics this guy. Night adder can give a nasty bite but not deadly.

Pattern looks more like this

 

[lkpat]

Pattern looks more like this
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Ive been doing this for 40 years it's definitely causus rhombetus.
If OP got close he would have also noticed smooth scales unlike the dasypeltis.

 

[RedViking]

Ive been doing this fo 40 years it's definitely causus rhombetus.

Then say so! I am relying on Google Lens for goodness sake!

 

[lkpat]

Then say so! I am relying on Google Lens for goodness sake!

Another giveaway is the vertically elliptical eye on the eggeater usually indicates nocturnal behaviour while the night adder is diurnal and has round pupils despite the name. I'm assuming he was out and about during the day.

 

[r0ckf1re]

Then say so! I am relying on Google Lens for goodness sake!

Me too! Was a struggle though with the picture quality.

 

[RedViking]

@lkpat how do you tell the difference looking at that blur, what is the giveaway?

 

[RedViking]

Another giveaway is the vertically elliptical eye on the eggeater usually indicates nocturnal behaviour while the night adder is diurnal and has round pupils despite the name. I'm assuming he was out and about during the day.

Does your phone enhance the pic? I can't see the eyes.

 

[lkpat]

Does your phone enhance the pic? I can't see the eyes.

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I don't need to see the eyes but OP can confirm if it was out in daylight hours or not. I can already see it's a night adder.

I was just pointing out dasypeltis are nocturnal.

 

[lkpat]

@lkpat how do you tell the difference looking at that blur, what is the giveaway?

Mostly the more pointed snout and distinct single chevron on the neck. Dasypeltis usually have a couple of thinner markings above the neck towards the snout (on the head) in addition to a chevron and sometimes that chevron is split.

Head shape and keeled scales are actually easier to see on dasypeltis inornata (southern brown eggeater)

 

[AfricanTech]

Then say so! I am relying on Google Lens for goodness sake!

google lens with a potato photo - what could go wrong...

 

[lkpat]

google lens with a potato photo - what could go wrong...

I'd be the first to admit it didn't do too badly. It picked the nearest option to the correct one lol.