Agreed. A few months ago I was talking to a friend at the University of Havana about Tropidophis and we couldn't agree to the gestation for Melanurus. We both experienced gestation as short as 5 months and as long as fifteen. The largest litter he has had was 9 or 10 (can't remember) I have had upwards of 23...and from extremely small females (a lot were still born as well).

Around the grounds of the Municipal zoo in the neighbourhood of Vedado, you can find Antillophis andreae, I received a trio on year and they were about 15 inches, big enough to take a house gecko or adult anole. One of the females laid 3 eggs some months later, and what information I could find, said that that was the adult size. A couple of years later I was in the Province of Villa Clara and came across Antillophis, but they were 4 feet plus, at first I thought I was seeing black and yellow Alsophis, but they were the same snake.

When I was telling the folks back in Havana about them, they didn't believe it, but people down there to have money to spend on field research, so they don't get around much.

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