AHH, the key wording is she had been seperated from the males. You probably do NOT know that many snakes store sperm sometimes for years and have live babies or ferile eggs but that does NOT make them parthenogenic. I know one record of a Trimeresurus albolabris adult female wc that had live babies for at least 7 years in captivity with no male ever introduced. This is NOT pathenogenesis just sperm storage which almost every mediocre herper is well aware of. Once more you are making decisions on what you are digging up in obscure papers that clearly are possibly inaccurate based on what you posted here. It's likely the authors are simply researchers and are not even aware snakes can store sperm so they thought if she could still produce after removal of males that it must be parthenogenesis. As I only know what you provided much of what I said here is based on assumptions because of wording of provided printed material. My speculation however is at least based on real life knowledge and not an obscure paper written by folks I have no background knowledge of...I'm only going to address any herp I use as an example by it's scientific name so at the very least you will learn something factual and pragmatic in your investigations. It's no trouble for me as I don't have to look them up...
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