(Sorry, no photos yet. He is still being acclimated to his new 100-gallon vivarium.)

I just swapped my Cal King for a Gopher Snake that I thought is a Pacific specimen based on colors & markings: not highly brown nor tan, no dark lines on neck, no red nor strong rust on tail.

I’ve seen many Great Basin specimens; he does not resemble them. I’ve only seen one Pacific specimen, but it was a typical light brown color.

Prior owner has no idea where the snake came from; it was a re-homed snake. I’m not even certain that it was captive-bred, but it has been in captivity at least 6 months.

This snake’s colors are highly unusual. Top is dark greenish brown, sides are yellowish green. His colors & patterns remind me of Moss Agate.

My online searches of photos resembling *green* gopher snakes find rare matches. Ironically, the only two matches found are of Great Basin specimens. I may need to rely on scale count to be certain of his subspecies.

1. Has anyone seen greenish Pacific or Great Basin specimens?
2. Knowing how variable this species can be in color & patterns, which subspecies is your guess?

1.0 Pantherophis guttatus
1.0 Pituophis catenifer catenifer?

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