Please don't ask me where it came from because I found it at the bottom of a barrel at a wholesaler and no one there had a clue where it came from but it's a shiny green keeper that takes pinks like a champ.
Dan
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Green Racer
Oxyrhopus
May 04, 2007 09:30 PM
Replies (6)
coluberking25
May 05, 2007 02:23 AM
Just the subject "Green Racer" easily narrows this down. It's a Baron's green racer and it's highly venomous. JUST KIDDING!
What you really have appears to be a yellow-belly racer. I can't narrow it down much further because my field guide is at home and I'm away lol.
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Scott
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1.0 Ball Python (Sultan)
0.1 California Kingsnake (Leota)
1.0 Eastern Painted Turtle (Yugi)
0.1 Red/Gold Bearded Dragon* (Irwin, R.I.P.)
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1.0 Hooded Rat* (Clubber, R.I.P.)
0.1 Albino Rat (Isis)
Oxyrhopus
May 05, 2007 01:59 PM
Yea, its a yellow belly racer but I was not informed of the locale it was collected from.
Dan
Chris_Harper2
May 05, 2007 11:36 PM
I have only seen one really emerald green Yellow Bellied Racer. It was a stunner. Collected at Harlan Counter Reservoir in SW Nebraska, near the Kansas border. It was very different looking than any other YBR I have seen from Nebraska or South Dakota.
Does that picture really show what the snake looks like? The one I saw was an even brighter, more emerald green color.
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Current snakes:
0.0.1 Gonyosoma oxycephala - Java locale (green)
0.2 Gonyosoma oxycephala - Malaysian locale (green)
1.2 Gonyosoma oxycephala - Java local (green)
2.2 Gonyosoma janseni - Seleyar locale (all black)
1.2 Gonyosoma janseni - Celebes locale (Black & Tan)
coluber
May 06, 2007 06:11 AM
So would you guys see plenty of black racers commonly in the range of the green racer?...but the green is somewhat rarer??
Paul (uk)
Chris_Harper2
May 07, 2007 08:48 AM
The Yellow-Bellied Racer and the Black Racer are separate subspecies, I don't know if they overlap or what they look like at the intergrade zone, assuming one exists. I think in the south there is another subspecies that separates them.
Lost my field guides and all of my other reptile books in a flood a few years ago and don't remember for sure.
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Current snakes:
0.0.1 Gonyosoma oxycephala - Java locale (green)
0.2 Gonyosoma oxycephala - Malaysian locale (green)
1.2 Gonyosoma oxycephala - Java local (green)
2.2 Gonyosoma janseni - Seleyar locale (all black)
1.2 Gonyosoma janseni - Celebes locale (Black & Tan)
coluber
May 07, 2007 05:41 PM
O.K....Thanks!
Paul
