What Kind Of Snake Is This?

[LazyYogi]

This guy was about 1.5 cm thick and a little less than a meter long.

Found him outside the house, but he has since disappeared.

*Edit: sorry forgot to attach the photo the first time

Edited May 26, 2012 by LazyYogi

[trainman34014]

Looks like a Keelback to me. They like water so if you live near to a Klong, Pond, Lake or whatever, you are likely to get them in the garden. Not deadly to man but they do bite if bothered and it's not a nice bite !

[Mosha]

Indo Chinese Sand Snake (Psammophis condenarus Indochinensis) Grows to 110 cm.

[phuket Mike]

Looks more like a Mock Viper to me - http://www.siam-info.de/english/snakes_psamnodynastes.html they are mainly present in the south of Thailand and harmless.

[LazyYogi]

I'm not so sure it's any of those.

I should mention that I'm in Chiang Mai, and my house is right by a small swamp/marsh area.

[MESmith]

Looks like a rat snake, from those longitudinal stripes. Harmless, unless you're a rat

[exeter]

Its not a rat snake or the keelbacks we have around Nakhon Sawan. Not see one of those before.

[MESmith]

yellow rat snake

[Tywais]

yellow rat snake

Does look like it.

Yellow Rat Snake

[bikkalad]

Looks like a belt in the making;)

[LazyYogi]

I think it's too small to be a rat snake.

Now it's hiding in the mango tree in front of the house.

I got a couple more photos of it.

[LazyYogi]

i wonder if it might be a striped kukri snake.

http://bangkokherps.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/striped-kukri-snake/

[Goshawk]

I think it's too small to be a rat snake.

correct.. it's non of the species mentioned above.

Your snake is rather an interesting one - Oligodon dorsolateralis. Its a species of Kukri snake.

Very little info available on this particular one & not many photo's on the web, but you can see it here at Siamensis.org

[Goshawk]

Oligodon dorsolateralis

...a synonym (taxonomy) of Oligodon cyclurus

[Beechboy]

Looks like a belt in the making;)

You must be fat.

Edited May 26, 2012 by Beechboy