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yes, I know it is not a rat but it is rare enough (at least over here) that I thought someone may like to see it.It goes by the name red banded odd-tooth snake (at least over here). Email me if you are interested in additional pictures in a natural setting.

Thanks for the pictures. They are all interesting snakes and tell us something about Korea. That was a very interesting shot of the rufodorsata. Is the odd-tooth snake called that because it is rear-fanged...just curious? And I was wondering about the location of the E. dione. Was that filmed near Seoul? Thanks for your efforts to tell us about the snakes of Korea

TC

>>yes, I know it is not a rat but it is rare enough (at least over here) that I thought someone may like to see it.It goes by the name red banded odd-tooth snake (at least over here). Email me if you are interested in additional pictures in a natural setting.
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The rufozonatus is one of the rarer Korean snakes. I am unsure of how it derived its common name. It is a snake eater. It has a short active period as it does not tolerate cold well and therefor is the first to set up for winter and the last out in the spring. As for the dione, it is a northern locality and is from the mountain areas about 50K East of Seoul. The one pictured was brought to my farm so we could use it over the few weeks of shooting. I have caught a few dione's in the past but had never had much luck getting them to eat and always released them at the first sign of weight loss but this one readily took a hopper two days after capture.

Since Seoul is about 38* N. latitude and the dione was from the mtns., it must retire pretty early in the Fall. My South Korean dione are getting nervous about the changes already even though they were born in captivity.

That D. rufozonatus must be a lowland snake and seems a lot like our kingsnakes. If it goes into brumation early it might be almost done for this year. We have some snakes here in n. MI that are almost done. I haven't seen the pit-viper, Sistrurus c. catenatus this week and suspect they may have migrated to their brumation sites. The latest I've seen one is September 8th in our part of the state. What's the latest you've seen a rufozonatus? Does Korea start to get cold in September, or does it start in later months there?

TC

I dont sure that E. rufodorsata is rear-fangered species. I was bitten by this species for many times and still alive. I dont have any health problem after this bites.
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Tula Exotarium
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E.g. guttata Normal 2.3
E.g. guttata Albino 2.4
E.g. guttata Oketee 2.0
E.g. guttata Hypo Oketee 1.1
E.g. guttata Albino Okeetee 2.2
E.g. guttata Ghost 2.3
E.g. guttata Motley 2.2
E.g. guttata Albino Motley 2.2
E.g. guttata Anerythristic 2.2
E.g. guttata Snow 2.4
E.g. guttata Creamsicle 2.1
E.g. rosacea 2.2
E.g. emoryi 2.2

E. persica black 3.4
E. persica brown 2.1
E. longissima 4.6
E. situla 3.3
E. dione 54
E. bimaculata 4.3
E. quatourlineata 10.15

E. o. obsoleta yellow 2.2
E. o. lindheimeri White Sided 2.2.
E. o. lindheomeri Leucistic 1.2
E. o. lindheimeri Black Orange 2.2
E. o. quatourlineata 1.3
E. o. quatourlineata Deckerti 2.2
E. o. quatourlineata Williamsi 1.0
E. o. rossalleni 2.2

Langaha madagascariensis 2.1.12
Cylindrophis ruffus 0.1
Enhydris plumbea 1.0

Nope, not a rear fang. I never said it was and so I went back and looked at the comments. I am not sure if he was making a statement that it was rear fanged and asking if this is why the common name OR if he was asking if it was rear fanged because of the common name. Bottom line is that to me the teeth looked like a typical colubrid and gave no indication as to why or how it got its common name. The word I got is that it was not venomous, rear fang or otherwise and although they never attempted to bite me, whenever they were placed with another snake it went right to biting it and trying to eat it. They never attempted to constrict the other snake, simply tried to bite up and down its body as if it were looking for the head so it could swollow it alive. We never let it get that far but I suspect they may in fact eat there prey in this manner (alive).