WHAT WAS IT? need help identifying

[Fish24/7]

while morel hunting I came across something i'd never seen before.

What looked like a baby snake but it had no head?

It looked,moved and wiggled like a nightcrawler, but it had tiny scales. It was black on the back with a bright red belly, about the thickness of a pencil, around 9" long. Wasn't a millipede or anything like that. Any ideas? I had left the camera in the truck

[Quillback]

Worm snake?

http://herpsofarkansas.com/Snake/CarphophisVermis

[Fish24/7]

bet that was it, head looked just like it's arse,lol

it was so small didn't see the eyes I guess.

I must have still been distracted by the morel i found that was the size of a bottle of water!

biggest one I've ever found

[Johnsfolly]

A worm snake would have been my guess. We found one in our yard a couple of years ago. Pretty cool little critter. Nice morel. I have been skunked so far this year.