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Does anyone on here know of a decent website that gives good pointers about identification of the various subspecies of O.taeniura. I live in the uk and over here the only ones bred and kept are generally friesei, ridleyi and blue beauties. However I have seen a lot of peoples "taiwans" that are obviously hybrids (they're too short and fat, without any bowtie patterns on the back etc, etc.) I breed pure friesei and am constantly having to tell people about the differences between the subspecies. If I knew of a website, I could just send them there instead.

Here are a couple of good sites

http://www.ratsnakes.com/gallery.html

http://www.bushmaster.de/HTML/RatSnake-index.htm

Of course I think that Schulz's monograph is the best source for ratsnake reference data. It is truly great.

Regards

John