Females are longer than males, but have shorter tails. This spine is not sharp enough to pierce skin. The tail is short in comparison with its body and ends in a spine-like scale. It has pinkish ventral pigmentation which extends onto dorsal scale rows one to two. amoenus is unpatterned and can be either brown or dark brown with a reddish belly. It has five upper labials and one postocular scale. The 13 rows of dorsal scales are smooth and glossy. Adults are 19–28 cm (7.5–11.0 in) in total length, with a record length of 34 cm (13 in). This snake is perfectly safe to pick up, as it cannot bite, but may produce a foul-smelling excretion.Ĭ. amoenus resides mostly under rocks, logs and leaf litter, or burrowed within rotting woody debris. Though this snake can be abundant in parts of its range, it is rarely seen because of its fossorial lifestyle.

It may also be found in grasslands adjacent to woodlands. This species is common in the ecotone between woodlands and wetlands. The species' range extends from southwest Massachusetts, south to southern Alabama, west to Louisiana and north to Illinois.

The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.The eastern worm snake ( Carphophis amoenus amoenus) is a subspecies of the worm snake, Carphophis amoenus, a nonvenomous colubrid endemic to the Eastern Woodlands region of North America. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it.

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