can anyone help me with what snake this is?

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we just found this little guy outside on the deck, I don't get the head in the photo but it was brown and looked like a crown snake, or maybe a little less white on the head.. just wanted to know if its still safe to be outside ATM. it's nighttime here btw
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The body looks like a Cacophis species(triangular in appearance), that genus also fits your description of the head markings. I would say probably squamulosus just going of the size and again body shape but there is no way I can be certain.
Did the crown extend across the nape or was it broken in the middle and extending down the sides for 1cm?
 
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Are you sure you can discount Marsh or White-Lipped Snake as possibilities, based on what you can see of the body? I personally don’t think it looks like either but it is too long ago for me to be confident? Am getting old. Lol.

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Are you sure you can discount Marsh or White-Lipped Snake as possibilities, based on what you can see of the body? I personally don’t think it looks like either but it is too long ago for me to be confident? Am getting old. Lol.

Blue

The triangular body pictured is a characteristic of Cacophis squamulosus, Marshies and White lipped snakes have a much more rounded body shape.
I actually own Golden Crowns and have owned Marshies so its very easy for me to tell them apart, even just by the body shape.
 
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