Eastern Smooth Earth Snake

This species of Earth snake has a divided anal plate and a reddish brown to gray body. There are fifteen rows of scales and really no distinguishing characteristics except for widely scattered dark spots on the body. The belly is grayish, off-white, or yellowish. Maximum body length is seven to ten inches long. There is a loreal scale that is horizontal and touching the eye (Figure 3).

Figure 3

Figure 3: In (1), the loreal scale is horizontal and touching the eye.
In (2), the loreal scale is absent; postnasal scale touches the
preocular scale
In (3), the loreal scale is located between the postnasal and the
preocular scales