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All I have is the common name for it, so you can help me too if you know the scientific name. How many of you have seen many/any of these before? This guy eats fuzzy/hopper mice!!! I would love to find him a girly, but I'll have to wait on that I guess. Thanks and again....enjoy.

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Conrad
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It appears to be a species of Liophis, a South American genus. Is your common name "Yellow-bellied Swamp Snake" or something similar? Cool snake.
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Pierson Hill

Herpetology and Herpetoculture

Ahhh...you don't play fair! I was trying to stump someone.....Actually was sold to me as a Chacoan watersnake, Liophis something or other...but I can't remember, and I was hoping someone would have the rest for me.... Not lazy, just rescourceful...lol
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Conrad
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Assuming this snake really does come from the Chaco, I hopefully narrowed the list down a bit for you. Doing a quick search under the EMBL database using Liophis and Paraguay and eliminating all the pictured snakes (hopefully there isn't too much geographic variation), I was left with the following species: anomalus, dilepis, frenatus, guentheri, miliaris, sagittifer, viridis. Hopefully one of these rings a bell. I've actually been wondering what species this is for some time since I saw a few of these guys at a show a few years back. If you still aren't sure, I'd check into guentheri a bit since EMBL states that it's found exclusively in the Chaco region where its range extends into Argentina. Hope this helps.

Regards,
Wes

Wes, thanks for the info. Nothing really "rings a bell", but if the L. guentheri are specific to the Chaco region that is pretty likely, though I will investigate it further and see if I can find anything else also. If you happen across further info to support current findings, let me know. Thanks again.
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Conrad
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