Albino corn snake: Also called amelanistic corn snakes, because they lack melanin, or black pigment. These snakes are bright red, orange, yellow and white. The eyes are also red, orange or pink.

The eyes of harmless snake have round pupils. Poisonous snakes also have a more angular head and a pit in front of the eyes. See our online publication, “Snakes” for illustrations.

Among the 5,000 existing species of mammals, more than 100 have their genome sequenced, whereas the genomes of only nine species of reptiles (among 10,000 species) are available to the scientific ...

Corn snake genome sequenced for the first time Date: November 24, 2015 Source: Université de Genève Summary: Among the 5,000 existing species of mammals, more than 100 have their genome ...

On a corn snake, there’s a similar band behind the eye, but it looks more like a big eyebrow in front. On a water snake, there’s no mask, just little vertical stripes below the eye.

And like most other venomous snakes in South Carolina, copperheads have yellow eyes with black vertical and elliptical pupils. Corn Snake.

Corn snakes also have round pupils, which is a typical characteristic of nonvenomous snakes. Hayden Cavender, Russell Cavender’s son, holds a Corn snake Wednesday afternoon at his father’s home.