Parietalis or Fitchi?

[EdgyExoticReptiles]

i was thinking that too because fitchi usually just has a dot of red

Originally Posted by Stefan-A

Looks like there may be a concinnus in there, not necessarily a fitchi. Most of the head seems to be red, not just the cheeks.

But it's a parietalis.

[reptileparadise]

I'd say thats a very nice parietalis!
i've seen some parietalis with red cheeks, but thats often temporarily. Only in their first weeks of live. It looks like yours is older then a few months though
Send it to me!

[Stefan-A]

My parietalis had a brownish head when I got her as a yearling, but it has turned grey since then. Who knows how it looked before that. Probably not red, but you see what I'm getting at.

[reptileparadise]

I just took some pictures of my young parietalis. They aren't as red as the beauty on page on, but you'll get the idea...

now...where did I leave my camera...

[andyoconnor83]

yeah you have to look at the side stripes and what scale rows they are on too. With CB snakes, colors aren't reliable to id a snake without also looking at scalation. I would say that looks like a very nice parietalis, no fitchi.

[Stefan-A]

Do the side stripes differ between fitchi and parietalis, Andy?

[snakeman]

there are Cali red sides that look like that.

[reptileparadise]

You can see a bit of a red blush, but not nearly as nice as you're animal Sephyr! She(?) really is stunning!

[andyoconnor83]

LOL Stefan, I looked back and remembered that they don't enough to make a positive id, I was thinking of fitchi vs. pickeringii and concinnus. sorry my statement isn't applicable, but I still see a nice interesting parietalis over a fitchi, other than ordinoides, fitchi are probably the most common wild snake I have seen in the wild and there is just something about this snake that would seem off if I were told it to be a fitchi, but that wouldn't rule out a intergrade.

[Zephyr]

As I stated, the parents are supposedly 100% parietalis and the other siblings show it.