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Can someone ID this?

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The article is calling it a copperhead, but it doesn't look like any copperhead I've seen.

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"A NINE-year-old cat has used up one of her lives after getting a venomous copperhead snake wrapped around her collar with her owners too afraid to untangle the serpent for fear of being bitten.

Owner Wendy Wallis said her cat Jelly wandered back in to their property, which borders Sorell Creek north of Hobart, about 11.30am yesterday carrying the snake with her.

She called wildlife rescuers who removed the snake."

http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2007/12/12/5918_bizarre-news.html


Edit: LAME. It looks like it is a copperhead that doesn't have a copperhead look.
 
Uroboros said:
The article is calling it a copperhead, but it doesn't look like any copperhead I've seen.

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Edit: LAME. It looks like it is a copperhead that doesn't have a copperhead look.
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Australian website, australian copperhead. Austrelaps superbus
 
I'll happily admit that the first thing I did was squint at the picture looking for faint banding or saddles that might just indicate a tremendously ugly hypermelanistic north american copperhead. Then I started thinking about surface contaminates that might stain the scales... squinted some more at the head shape thinking of Nerodia and then finally decided to open the link you posted, noticed the .com.au URL and then felt like a bit of a dumbass because I knew what australian copperheads looked like and was staring right at one, that had been properly labeled, without recognizing it.
 
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