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A co-worker of mine came into work today saying he had something for me, next thing i knew im holding this little guy a good looking bull snake. it was picked up near Belen NM which is just south of Albuquerque. after holding for a bit i was very surprise at how docile it is, and thats why my co-worker brought him in.

now another snake is the last thing i need right now not only that is im trying to build up a collection of Boas so im not all the interested in local colubrids. but i agree to take it for a couple weeks and will decide from there weather to keep it or give it back

so a question for any of you bull sanke guys, can bulls sankes be sexed by palpatation like boas can? i have sexed some boas like that and felt the ends of the hemipenes but i didnt know if bull snakes where the same way.

and now whith that out of the way allow me to introduce you to "Master Nameless"

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-Stephen-

0.1 soon to be wifey (Babe)
1.0 rotwiler/chow (Boomer)
1.0 norm corn (Jake)
1.0 col redtail boa (Switch, formally known as Dixie)
0.1 ball python (Bella)
1.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa (Torpaz & Saphira)

Beautiful little guy or gal. However it appears to me to be a great basin gopher snake. What do you think guys? I don't know if you can sex them like boids. Someone else will have to comment on that.

Adam

Definitely not deserticola. Looks all sayi to me, with maybe some affinis influence...like a west Texas locale. But what do I know...just putting it out there.

The most interesting thing is the small central plate between the prefrontals and the frontal...what's up with that?

hmm so niether of you thinks its a bull snake?
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-Stephen-

0.1 soon to be wifey (Babe)
1.0 rotwiler/chow (Boomer)
1.0 norm corn (Jake)
1.0 col redtail boa (Switch, formally known as Dixie)
0.1 ball python (Bella)
1.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa (Torpaz & Saphira)

Perhaps Sonoran gopher/bull intergrade.
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Todd Hughes

Is also on the Yorba Linda gopher posted just prior to this thread.
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Mark