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Old 03-28-2008, 04:09 AM   #8 (permalink)
Stefan-A
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Re: some new pics!!!!

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Originally Posted by drache View Post
a beautiful snake
now please explain to to me and possible other ID impaired people how you can tell that it's a butler's - what are the distinguishing features?
my Rossman is still in one of the book boxes . . .
- The lateral stripe is high. It's supposed to start in the second and stretch to the fourth row, at least partially. That's why my second guess earlier was radix, because it was high enough to be in the fourth row.

- The head shouldn't be significantly wider than the neck, which also applies to one or two other garters specialized in invertebrates. T. brachystoma was one of them, I think.

- Dorsal scale rows 19 max

- Supralabials: 6 or 7

- Infralabials 8 or 9
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