It is a young adult male. This proud owner had to share! I love his bright red and clean high contrast marks.
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Came to us as a "Cape Gopher"
amazonreptile
Mar 10, 2010 08:32 PM
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monklet
Mar 10, 2010 08:44 PM
Very beautiful and interesting snake. I'm gonna go out on a limb and predict that when some more knowledgable posters chime in it will be called a bimaris/vertibralis intergrade.
monklet
Mar 10, 2010 08:46 PM
...why isn't it just a bimaris?
amazonreptile
Mar 10, 2010 09:00 PM
>>...why isn't it just a bimaris?
Dunno, guy called it a cape gopher. I would like to call it a Baja Gopher.
It is a nice snake no matter. Certainly not a "project" animal. But a beautiful pet nonetheless.
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DISCERN
Mar 10, 2010 11:28 PM
Yep, that is a cape gopher all right. Capes not only can be colored with the bright oranges we are so used to seeing, but also, some are adorned with the darker reds such as this one. My only cape gopher is exactly like this one.
Thanks for sharing!
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Yani
Mar 12, 2010 12:37 AM
The black blotches on the top third suggest at least some bimaris influence. The deep reds suggest some cape influence. Bimaris is a tricky one to ID. If you spend enough time in Baja, you'll see that there are large integrade zones on the northern end of their range (with annectans) and on the southern end of their range (with vertebralis).
I gotta go with a bimaris x vertebralis integrade...
Gorgeous snake any way you slice it... Let me know if you ever produce offspring. I'd love to tie one into this male bimaris...
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