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Hey everyone, I have this beautiful hognose snake I am trying to identify...it was found in NC...I think it is an eastern hog but I am not sure. Is there a definitive way to distinguish between Easterns, Westerns, and Southerns? Thanks, Lance
- I can take more pics if neccessary...
I gave a better reply on the Hog forum, but that is definitely an eastern. The head shape is different as well as the things I listed on the other forum.
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, TX
Very easy to tell an eastern from a western. The snout on a western is blunt and sharply upurned (like it ran into a parked car).
FRank
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"The luxury of not getting involved departed with the last lifeboat Skipper..."
>>Very easy to tell an eastern from a western. The snout on a western is blunt and sharply upurned (like it ran into a parked car).
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>>FRank
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>>"The luxury of not getting involved departed with the last lifeboat Skipper..."
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, TX
I'm not sure I would agree with that. I have kept all of them and the southern and eastern and IMO both look less abruptly blunt than the western or Mexican.
The "easy" key to the dif between southern and eastern is the underside of the tail on an eastern is lighter than it's belly, on the southern the tail is darker.
Frank
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"The luxury of not getting involved departed with the last lifeboat Skipper..."
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