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Hey all,
Some friends of mine just brought over this animal for me to look at. I'm no Pituophis expert, so I thought I'd post it here to get some opinions. It was wild caught....I'll await your answers...
Thanks,
Rick

Looks like it is white-sided...Where was it caught? I would love to hear the story behind it...
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WOW
That is different looking . What species is it or where was it found because I cant tell.
I like it a lottttttttttttt.

jason

posting the picture. If you happen to have more pictures please post them, and some details on the area where you caught that snake would be great too. Amazing looking snake, congrats on that catch.

Have a good one,

Gregg F.

>>Hey all,
>> Some friends of mine just brought over this animal for me to look at. I'm no Pituophis expert, so I thought I'd post it here to get some opinions. It was wild caught....I'll await your answers...
>>Thanks,
>>Rick
>>
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Gregg F.

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This animal was wild caught in the San Diego area. I'm posting another pic of it. It is definately White-sided. There was another one caught in the same area, but it escaped. I don't have any San Diego Gophers to compare it with and don't have a book that goes into detail on the scale count differences between them and other Gophers. I don't own the snake(unfortunately), but I'm working on that!!

It's also Anery! Not to mention a very clean white-sided with great patter and awesome silver eyes. In my openion the anery gene, or lack of red/yellow, makes him even more special. It's very hard to compare him to a normal San Diego Gopher because as with all white-sided snakes the pattern is very different, but if he was caught in that area then I would say it's a San Diego Gopher. Keep working on getting him, he's one of a kind.

There is definitely more than "one" thing going on with that snake, and anery came to mind. Good call, nz.

Eimon

Hi Nima
To me it looks like the same thing going on in the Whitesided Bulls , they look anery too.
Pretty cool snake though.

jason

Hi Jason,
mabe it's the pic! The size of the head in relation to the neck makes me think it could be a Pacific! Are they found in the same range as the San Diegos? What do you think it is?

I think Pacific range just north of L.A . I guess it really depends where they found the thing .Annectans and Pacific some times can be hard tell about a part but I agree pacific tend to be bigger and more robust . I had a anery annectan that was huge a 5 footer

Jason