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Pretty common snake in these parts....(no cheating if you know where I live)

Wow. What a stunning snake!

I like it.

Please make sure that once the contest is over (ie contest: name the snake), to tell us everyhting about it. Please include toxicity and temperament and include your experience with keeping it in captivity.

I find that snake you have shown to be a very interesting snake. You are lucky to live in a location where you are around these beautiful creatures, whereever you are.

thx for sharing!

easy to maintain a collection. I move to a new home about every 3 years. When I settle down in about 6 years I plan on keeping
small rattlesnakes C. l. klauberi/C. l. lepidus and small arboreal vipers. The Okinawan coral snake pictured seem to be fairly low on the "defensive/aggressive" scale. A friend of mine free handed(Something I would never do) one last summer, without getting bit THANK GOD,freaked me and his girlfriend out.

Lore amongst the local commercial collectors of the Okinawan habu(Protobothrops flavoviridis) belive that the Okinawan coral snake is capable of inflicting a deadly sting with it's tail.

NP

With the spots on the flanks unusually vertically elongated peraps?

np

now Sinomicrurus japonicus boettgeri, accoridng to the latest revision of the genus by Slowinski et al. (2001) and the revision of the japonicus group by Ota et al. (1999).

See link below - go to Elapidae 1999 and Elapidae 2001.

Beautiful little snakes - this is the first time I have seend ecent colour pics of one!

Cheers,

Wolfgang
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Thanks for compliment on the photo...

Short of putting these critters in an ice bucket it's difficult
to get a good photo...

>>Thanks for compliment on the photo...
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>>Short of putting these critters in an ice bucket it's difficult
>>to get a good photo...

That's something they have in common with a lot of S. American coral snakes and other small elapids...

Cheers,

Wolfgang
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