I picked up this snake in a trade, She is very cool and mellow and eats like a retic, so she quicky became one of my favorites. I'd like to find out what kind of gopher she is as i may want to purchase a male for her. I am not a colubrid guy so, this is why i'm asking for your assistance. Here is the photo.
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Help Identify Pitouphus Please
nephrurus
May 16, 2004 12:10 PM
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shannon brown
May 16, 2004 01:21 PM
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nz
May 16, 2004 04:38 PM
Definately a San Diego Gopher. She's a beauty.
chaoscat
May 16, 2004 04:44 PM
>>Definately a San Diego Gopher. She's a beauty.
Don't you mean annectens? affinis is sonoran gopher I thought, and that doesn't look like a sonoran gopher.
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nz
May 16, 2004 05:17 PM
Thanks for clearing that up. That’s a San Diego Gopher, not Sonoran.
nephrurus
May 16, 2004 05:33 PM
np
chaoscat
May 16, 2004 05:59 PM
>>Thanks for clearing that up. That’s a San Diego Gopher, not Sonoran.
heh, ok. I'm totally confused on the taxonomy, and wasn't sure on that til I checked the Pituophis page.
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shannon brown
May 16, 2004 06:48 PM
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Yani45
May 16, 2004 06:49 PM
I've seen a few San Diegos that are pretty red like yours. Very cool. The pattern is classic San Diego and while there is an intergrade zone between the San Diego and bimaris in Baja, the intergrades tend to lose the San Diego influence before they start adopting the red coloration of the bimaris. My two cents anyway...
John M.
bernd-d
May 17, 2004 05:00 AM
This animal is a very special one, the red color makes it very beautyful. I have a male annectens of this groundcolor in my terraria.
But there is something special with the patterns for a pure annectens, too:
bodyblotches ca 55-60. Theese are a little few for annectens. And they are round towards the tail! This is very untypical for annectens, they get barrens there.
So I agree with you that this is a(n) (beautiful!) annectens with (some or more) influence of bimaris, because of round blotches and red color.
Bernd
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