Hi,
I have an adult white lipped that probes 8 scales deep. The others where 5 and 14.
Male or female?
Thanks. JF
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Sexing White-Lipped Pythons
JFDery
Sep 26, 2005 07:16 AM
Replies (4)
drphibes
Sep 26, 2005 05:59 PM
Males will have 2 visible spurs near cloaca.
Robert
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have an adult white lipped that probes 8 scales deep. The others where 5 and 14.
>>
>>Male or female?
>>
>>Thanks. JF
JFDery
Sep 26, 2005 07:08 PM
Thank you, I'll check that right away 
JF
Wulf
Sep 27, 2005 12:30 AM
Hi Robert,
well, females will have visible spurs aswell. Usually in the same size. I wouldn't want to determine sex by looking at spurs. The male's could have broken off during mating, by scrubbing the females back. There is no sexual dimorphism recognized by Brongersma (1953,1956) and McDowell (1975). My females all have the same size of spurs, too.
I would have to look up the no. of scales for probing..
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wlpython
Sep 27, 2005 08:10 AM
I would say that if you probed the snake to 8 scales you have a a male. That seems too deep for a female. How big are the snakes?
