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help identify south America snake
TNC
Mar 14, 2005 08:54 AM
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rearfang
Mar 14, 2005 09:52 AM
Right off the bat it looks like a completely melanistic specimen of Spilotes pullatus. Was the any yellow on th belly?
Frank
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louevil
Mar 14, 2005 06:21 PM
Nah, not a Spilotes....the head shape is all wrong. Honestly, it looks exactly like a Black Mangrove (Boiga dendrophilia gemmicincta)...but those don't occur in SA.
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WW
Mar 15, 2005 03:51 AM
>>From France guyana
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Looks very much like a Chironius, but it is hard to be 100% sure from that photo.
Cheers,
Wolfgang
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zoolady
Mar 15, 2005 01:08 PM
>>Looks very much like a Chironius,
What is the COMMON NAME of Chironius????
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Greg Longhurst
Mar 15, 2005 05:06 PM
You could call it a whipsnake or a treesnake. Calling it such, however, would not make it clear to anyone else what snake you were referring to, since there are whipsnakes & treesnakes on more than one continent. The real common name would be in Spanish, & probably harder for you to remember & pronounce than Chironius. All animals have a scientific name. Not all of them have a common name. The scientific name is the same world-wide, in any language. As gently as possible, I'm attempting to get you to come to grips with the fact that learning at least some scientific names for snakes is not a bad idea.
Cheers! ~~Greg~~
WW
Mar 16, 2005 03:46 AM
>>You could call it a whipsnake or a treesnake. Calling it such, however, would not make it clear to anyone else what snake you were referring to, since there are whipsnakes & treesnakes on more than one continent. The real common name would be in Spanish, & probably harder for you to remember & pronounce than Chironius. All animals have a scientific name. Not all of them have a common name. The scientific name is the same world-wide, in any language. As gently as possible, I'm attempting to get you to come to grips with the fact that learning at least some scientific names for snakes is not a bad idea.
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>>Cheers! ~~Greg~~
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