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Hello Group,

I just want to make sure I am pronouncing our snakes scientific names properly.

Is Lampropeltis pronounced like this:

Lam Pro Pel Tis

Also is triangulum pronounced like this:

Tri Ang U Lum

Also is Campbelli pronounced like this:

Cam Bull Eye

and finally is knoblochi pronounced like this:

Know Block Eye

Thanks again for any help you can offer,

Justin

Lam Pro Pel Tis
lampro peltis...yes....

Tri Ang U Lum ......yes....LOL....

Cam Bull Eye
...........the guy's name was Campbell (think soup) add an I

Know Block Eye
.....Knob lock eye......knobs....

I used to love people asking Woo-deenees........(Woodini)

.........just say as it looks.....I take it you don't live around snake people???........some areas have very little snake persons and milk heads around......some are loaded....(PA)...

good luck....
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........JY

"I used to love people asking Woo-deenees........(Woodini)"

Too funny!....

The "Great Woodini!!"....renowned escape artist..LOL!

OOPS!,...I almost forgot!,..they ARE escape artists!..HAHAA!

~Doug

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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

So are they called Who-Deenees then? Is that how you pronounce their scientific name?

Justin

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.......now we are going to mess people all up....

.......say them like you see them.....

....truth....we are not able to actually ask the ancient Romans how to pronounce most names....and different people say the names differently ....just a little...not all the names just some....

there is no wrong answer.....

......like......is it Getulus or Jetulus .....aaaaaaaaah I've jeard both....from learned peoples....
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........JY

ain't it...GETULA....now???.......or GET-TOOLA-A???

The name is derived from the ancient "Getulians".

It refers to the Getulian people of Morocco, whose tribal insignia resembles the chain-like pattern of the kingsnakes of the eastern U.S.A. (Pyron & Burbrink).

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

...true story.....

lots of people.....even still...call them wooodeenees....

.....wheeeee...............

it just came to mind....

.....ask them to say rhombomaculata or parvarubra,,,,....

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........JY

Most people don't have the fist clue as to how ANY of the scientific names were derived, or what they mean at all.

Even the name "rhombomaculata" quite literally means...the angled, irregular rhomboid-shaped spot pattern on the dorsum.

Rhombo(rhomboid) = irregular shaped spots

maculata = pertaining to the top of the back

And of course, the subspecific name "woodini" refers to the last name "Woodin" of the person it was named after.

Same with Dr. Helen Gaige, for the Black milksnake(gaigeae)

Roger Conant (L. t. conanti)

Hobart Smith (L.t. smithi).....

Elaphe quatrolineata (Four-lined snake) = Buckskin, with four longitudinal lines(stripes)

South Florida Mole king (occipitolineata) meaning line(stripe) behind the eye(occipitals) pertaining to the eye.

Anyway, as you certainly know, they didn't just make these names up out of the clear blue sky. They all mean something very specific. I have always been very interested in what the heck many of them mean, and over the course of many years, I made sure I found out what many of them meant.

~Doug

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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

.and we aren't making fun of anybody that cannot or does not say Latin names or doesn't know how to say them....most snake people now know what a ball morph is worth...buy it for less and sell it for more and are happy doing that all day long....(and if they make me money I don't care if they don't know snakes)LOL...

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the only name without a menaing I can think of is Morelia....I think it said it had no real meaning....(Morelia....carpet pythons...)////
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........JY

More - elia = money.......more-money!

HAHAAA!!,......just kiddin'!!

I don't know what that one means..LMAO!!

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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

Hello JY,

Thanks for the help with pronouncing the names I really appreciate it.

My father purchased a 2010 pair of Pueblan Milksnakes for my me and my twin brother about a month and a half ago.

This weekend he got us pair Tarahumara Kingsnakes. We have been feeding the Pueblans a pinky every 3 days so that we can grow them big in a couple of years. Hopefully they will be ready to breed by 2012. The Tarahumaras are blue so we are not going to feed them or bother them until after they shed.

We are just new into the snake community and joined a herp club out here in Vegas so we can learn more. Until now though we really wanted to know how to pronounce the scientific names properly. Thank you for helping us with that.

So now we have 1.1 2010 Pueblans and 1.1 2010 Tarahumara and plenty of pinkies to feed them all for a couple of months.

We also have 20 Leopard Geckos of all different color patterns and morphs that we have been breeding for a couple of years.

Justin

yea......welcome.....

this is milkhead country....the smartest sometimes just lurk....not always...you just have to coax them out with really ,really cool milk pics....

we all have owned too many milks/kings ....wait...not enough???......depends on time ....we never have enough time....

...good luck.....have fun......!
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........JY

member that joke????...when the guy with the wooden eye asks the girl with the cleft palate to dance and she replies......WOOD EYE....WOOD EYE....and then he says.......

hair lip hair lip. LMAO Totally not PC.
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BigT
There is a difference between ignorance and stupidity. The ignorant can be taught, stupidity is beyond our control.
1.2 P. m. melanoleucus B/W N. J. Northern Pines
1.2 P. d. deppei Mexican Pines
2.2 P. l. lineaticollis Linis or Lined Pines
1.2 P. m. lodingi Black Pines
1.1 Drymarchon melenurus Blacktail Cribo
1.2 M. s. cheynei Jungle Carpet
2.6 L. p. pyromelana Arizona Mt. Kings
1.1 L. g. californiae B/W Cali kings
0.0.3 M. f. flagellum Eastern Coachwhips
1.2 G. m. bottegoi Western Plated lizards

that ain't our punchline....no it ain't right....but those were different times

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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

One of my favorite stupid jokes of all time.
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Kent

0.1 Hypomelanistic striped cornsnake
1.1 Hypo (het lavender, striped) cornsnake hatchlings
2.2 Normal (het hypo, lavender, striped) cornsnake hatchlings
1.2 Gray-banded kingsnakes, blairs phase
1.1 Oregon rubber boas

How about Thayeri???

Is it pronounced Thayer Eye?

Thank you,

Justin

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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

Thanks Doug!

The name "thayeri" originates from the snake being named after Dr. Frank Thayer of New Mexico.

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

Welcome to Lampros Justin, soon you will be hooked.
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BigT
There is a difference between ignorance and stupidity. The ignorant can be taught, stupidity is beyond our control.
1.2 P. m. melanoleucus B/W N. J. Northern Pines
1.2 P. d. deppei Mexican Pines
2.2 P. l. lineaticollis Linis or Lined Pines
1.2 P. m. lodingi Black Pines
1.1 Drymarchon melenurus Blacktail Cribo
1.2 M. s. cheynei Jungle Carpet
2.6 L. p. pyromelana Arizona Mt. Kings
1.1 L. g. californiae B/W Cali kings
0.0.3 M. f. flagellum Eastern Coachwhips
1.2 G. m. bottegoi Western Plated lizards

"Welcome to Lampros Justin, soon you will be hooked"

> "Lampros"

Very good my "shiny shielded" friend!..HAHAA!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com