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DMong
at Mon Sep 3 04:15:37 2012 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DMong ]
I examined the shed skin you sent me, and it does in fact key-out as L.t.gaigeae with 19 dorsal scale rows at mid-body, just as I thought it probably would. Also, it looks to be a short-tailed male as it has 55 or 56 subcaudal scales (very tip of tail missing) and a straighter, less tapering tail. Of the females that K. Williams examined (per Systematics 1978), females had between 42-54 subcaudal scales past the vent.
Thanks for sending it to me to examine!..
cheers, ~Doug ----- "a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing" 

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ATTN. Drdan (Black milk ID) - DMong, Mon Sep 3 04:15:37 2012
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