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i know this is Psammophis of some sort but what is the sp/ssp?
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We found this snake dead in a net and i have no idea what it is...
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I was herping in Ghana, West Africa when i came across both of these any help would be greatly appreciated and please only scientific names!!!! the locals have given me enough common names that havent helped me identify them at all thanks again!!
My male Psammophis (about 130 cm TL, origin unknown) looks exactly like this one; other features are one thin line on each side of the otherwise plain, cream-yellow underside. He was sold to me as a sibilans by a keeper who bears a particular interest in the tribe Psammophiini. It sould be mentioned, however, that the female - admittedly same species - is patternless but for the (attenuated) black speckling on the back. I have also to mention a reliable book about snakes of Western and Central Africa, reading that sibilans would not occur in Ghana...
The black snake is a Thrasops.
Best regards,
Benjamin
...occidentalis
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