John, thanks for the info. I am going to make a point this coming year to try to locate E. davidi here in the ROK. I was planning on doing a bit more work with Dr. Sim regarding E. s. schrenki / anomala so I will also discuss and hopefully try to confirm E. davidi presence with him. However the snow is now falling so it will have to wait some.

It is very difficult to get much info on Korean snakes. Most of what I see is drawn from those species with large distribution areas and the sources I believe are more China than actually Korean. I know that most of the Korean species represented in U.S. collections are actually out of China or Russia with the possible exception of E. dione and perhaps a very few E. s. schrenki that would have been exported many years ago by the late Lloyd Lemke. To my knowledge there has not been anything legally taken out of Korea since then.

Thanks again for the info,
Don

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