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Ryan_Sikola
at Sun Sep 5 14:46:47 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Ryan_Sikola ]
They say that all lampropeltinine snakes crossed into the americas from the bering land bridge during a temperate period some 16-22 million years ago. This includes pituophis. Since there are old world "rat snakes" and even candidates for old world lampropeltis (Coronella) I'm going to pick your brain and ask what old world snakes resemble our pituophis and might they be related? I'll start with a couple:
King "rat snake"

Ladder "rat snake"

Diadem "rat snake"

I've worked with the later two of these snakes and they remind me allot of pituophis so I thought I'd share my curiosity.
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Candidates for old world pituophis - Ryan_Sikola, Sun Sep 5 14:46:47 2010
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