This is new to me, anyone else?

[MasSalvaje]

I found this guy at a pond I go to. It had a wierd growth or part of an old injury I am not sure but here are a couple of pics. I apologize for the poor angles but the wind was gusting over 40mph. The first shot is a full body shot and the second is the area in question.

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn48/Massalvaje/easter007.jpg

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn48/Massalvaje/easter003.jpg

What do you think happened?

-Thomas

[ssssnakeluvr]

well.....I wasn't there when it happened.....:rolleyes: looks like a chunk of skin got torn up somehow and healed.....leaving that odd piece there..... nice wandering too!!!! I need to come down there to do some herpin!!!!!

[drache]

my Sammy has a smaller version of this at one end of her surgery scar - I go with Don's guess

[prattypus]

It's the start of an opposible thumb!

[MasSalvaje]

It's the start of an opposible thumb!

That is exactly what I was thinking! :D

-Thomas

[count dewclaw]

Do snakes get warts?

[adamanteus]

I agree with Dons' guess, it's a flap of skin left loose after an old injury.

[guidofatherof5]

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn48/Massalvaje/easter003.jpg



If I had to give it a name I would call it a snake skin tag(acrochordons).
Much like the skin tags people get, only this ones covered in scales.

[count dewclaw]

Ok, so people think this one is a skin flap/tag. But I was serious - do snakes get warts, or is that strictly a mammalian issue? Does anyone know?

[ssssnakeluvr]

warts are caused by a virus, as far as I know I have only seen them on humans and dogs. snakes don't get them.

[count dewclaw]

Thanks, I was wondering if there was a snake wart virus, apparently not. Do snakes get other viruses?

[guidofatherof5]

Ok, so people think this one is a skin flap/tag. But I was serious - do snakes get warts, or is that strictly a mammalian issue? Does anyone know?

I don't know if snakes can get warts but if they could I don't think it would be covered with scales. Warts push the normal skin out of the way and form a crown. This thing looks like the end of a tail. Very strange.
It's almost as if it's a birth defect, an extra tail. I would love to see an x-ray to see if there were tail bones in it. See if you can get a Vet. to give you a free x-ray. If it's a Herp. Vet. they might do it just to findout. Keep us posted.

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

That's definitely a scar!!! My normal male banded water snake had this same thing right along side his massive scar that literally looked like something had taken a BIG chunk out of him a long time ago. It's like a flap of skin that has long since healed over, but never reattached to the body.

[charles parenteau]

There is something like that in my book Die strumpfbandnatter from martin hallemen ,but is wright in german ...there is something very similar.