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This snake has quite a bit of color variation. Depending on their range, they are known to have green, yellow and blue populations.

A wash of orange-red is often present on the chin, sides of the head. Like other garter snake, they have light stripes that go down the body. Indigo Snake Morph: Texas Indigo, Sex: Male, Maturity: Baby/Juvenile, Birth: 2021, Prey: Frozen/Thawed Mouse, Price: 1,300, Seller: Pauls Cool Scales, Last Updated: 02/20/22. Eastern Indigo Snakes are a uniform bluish or gunmetal black, both dorsally and ventrally. Their underside is often a salmon pink color. These small snakes are harmless and typically flee into the water or brush if they are confronted by a human. The Texas indigo snake ( Drymarchon melanurus erebennus) is currently considered a subspecies of the Eastern or Florida indigo snake and is found in Texas and down deep into Mexico. White-Lipped Island Pit Viper White-lipped island pit vipers ( Trimeresurus insularis) can range from a light, almost sky-blue color to a deep jewel toned bluish green. Texas indigo snakes are predominantly black in color, with a high sheen which gives their smooth scales a remarkable iridescent hue. Five minutes into my very first outing into the mesquite thickets near our new home, I found this gorgeous Texas indigo snake! It looked very similar to the endemic Florida indigo snake in my home state, but the unusual facial pattern threw me off and I had to search for a proper species identification. It is one of the largest snakes in North America, smaller only than the rarer and protected Eastern Blue Indigo found mainly in Florida and Georgia. I’m back from a bit of a hiatus! We moved from the Seattle, Washington area to the Southern tip of Texas in the Rio Grande Valley last month, and it’s been a mad scramble to get up and running again! In order to get back in the groove of posting new photos, I’m going to share with you the very first photo I took. The Texas Blue Indigo (Drymarchon melanurus erebennus) is a Protected non-venomous snake native to Texas and portions of Mexico.