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I'm posting this for someone on another forum. This has stumped him for a while so I figured I'd post here and ask.. This is the description and location he gave me. Unfortunately there are no pictures but any ideas would be helpful.

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When I was stationed in Korea I saw a snake only for an instant, it was going under a rock. It was green with an orange tail, and I believe slightly kneeled scales. Any help in identifying this snake would be greatly appreciated.

I'm sure that it wasn't venomous. I saw it in S. Korea, Camp Casey(12 miles from the N. Korean border), it was an the ground near the top of a small mountain I was climbing. Thanks for the help, I'm going to do some more internet searching. This has been plagueing me for about 2 yrs.
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Lucien

1.1 Columbian Redtail Boa (BCI)(Sutekh and Isis)
3.5.3 Leopard geckos (2.0 Blizzards (Caine and Goliath), 0.1 Tangerine Albino (Tequila Sunrise ...Tiki for short), 1.0 Rainwater Albino (Mycah), 0.4 Poss. Het. Albino (Annika, Lace, Rain and Aris) and 2.1 dbl. het blizzard x tang albino (Malice, Malfeas, and Mystic))
0.1 Savannah Monitor (Kiros)
13 rats
2 Dogs (Loki and Storm)
3 cats (Ashe, Sahara and Hercules)
6 Fish (4 Red Danios, 1 Cardinal Fish, and 1 Tiger Barb)
8 Ramshorn snails
"And a Partridge in a Pear Tree!"

Probably Gonyosoma oxycephala. the red-tailed green ratsnake. I am not certain it is found in Korea, without pulling out a world atlas, but it ranges from Thailand & Kampuchea throughout large areas of the Indo-Australian Archipelago & the Phillipines.

~~Greg~~

Thats what I was thinking too.. but my identification skills aren't that good especially from that area of the world... Thanks.. I'll pass that on to him.
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Lucien

1.1 Columbian Redtail Boa (BCI)(Sutekh and Isis)
3.5.3 Leopard geckos (2.0 Blizzards (Caine and Goliath), 0.1 Tangerine Albino (Tequila Sunrise ...Tiki for short), 1.0 Rainwater Albino (Mycah), 0.4 Poss. Het. Albino (Annika, Lace, Rain and Aris) and 2.1 dbl. het blizzard x tang albino (Malice, Malfeas, and Mystic))
0.1 Savannah Monitor (Kiros)
13 rats
2 Dogs (Loki and Storm)
3 cats (Ashe, Sahara and Hercules)
6 Fish (4 Red Danios, 1 Cardinal Fish, and 1 Tiger Barb)
8 Ramshorn snails
"And a Partridge in a Pear Tree!"

>>Probably Gonyosoma oxycephala. the red-tailed green ratsnake. I am not certain it is found in Korea, without pulling out a world atlas, but it ranges from Thailand & Kampuchea throughout large areas of the Indo-Australian Archipelago & the Phillipines.
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>> ~~Greg~~

I wondered about Gonyosoma or possibly a Maticora bilineata, but neither species gets over as far as the Korean peninsula.

Its probably some obscure Korean endemic Oligodon or something we would never figure out.
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Chris Harrison

The red tailed ratsnake, is only found as far north as Thailand ans Laos. I had though possibly a trimeserus but that is too far north as well.

Frank
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