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This is a pic of my female mojave green

From your photo it looks like some interesting tail banding on that scute. Do you have a better photo of the tail?

Yes that tail does look interesting, as do the head scales? It is hard to say if it is out of focus, or, if the paired preoculars are absent.

It has a little bit of a viridis look to it.

it reminds me a lot of the viridis one can find around Valentine/Marfa.

note the dark mask that covers the snout and extend back over each supraocular and the hint of the "viridis cross between the supraoculars. Without being able to determine any scalation at this point I think I lean toward viridis X atrox rather than a scute cross.

this is one of Jason Penny's pics from west Texas (hope you don't mind Jason, it's a great shot for head comparisons)

I need a magnifying glasss to see that photo I think you might have posted the thumbnail instead of the actual photo. From what I can see it looks like a viridis, yes?

B

I did open the photo, it just came out small here. Yes it's a viridis from Hudspeth Co. if I remember right. The head looks pretty much identical to Lokie77's snake.

bustin your chops. I think I have seen that photo on JP's website before. It does look similar. The dorsal blothces remind me a little of a different viridis I saw this year.

B

I thought the same thing about the scalation and over all doral pattern. The blotches are very viridis looking.

I'd like to see a few more shots of the animal up close and in focus.

Here is another pic of her. I'll try and take some better pics of her and post them. I bought her from exoticjungle and they sold her to me as a cb adult mojave.

She could certainly be a captive bred animal but I am pretty certain you don't have a pure mojave. Typically mojaves have much wider white bands in comparison to the black and her black bands look much like that of a western diamondback. If you get a chance take a few more shots and post em.

I noticed that the bands on the tale didn't look like a mojave's. I'll take a few more pics and post them

another pic

sorry about the quality of the pics my digital camera is not very good

Although it's still tough to tell from your photos I would have to say that it doesn't look at all like a mojave. I think Rich might be close with viridis X atrox. I also don't think it looks like a female from those new photos. Based on the number of tail bands and tail length it looks like a boy. This is obviously not as accurate as having someone probe it so I could be wrong.

If you have time maybe you can put the snake in a tupperware container and shoot a few pictures with some stronger outdoor lighting. It might be easier to get the whole animal in focus. I don't know much about the company you got it from but if it were me I'd be wondering what it really was.

I probed it after i received it and i assure you its a female

It also has the typical black basal rattle segment of an atrox.

It could be a cross to a cross too... Sorry, couldn't resist...

I also think it's an atrox X viridis of some sort, and if the new snake photo you posted above is also from the same place, maybe there is more than two influences??? Look at the mish mash of kingsnake or other colubrid crosses that have been done. Heck, just writing down the lineage of what species and varieties are involved can be longer than the snakes themselves!

np

Shes a beauty! Where did you get her from?