This is new to me, anyone else?

[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.