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Old 03-29-2008, 08:23 AM   #27 (permalink)
Stefan-A
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Re: Another mystery garter

Well, you can count the supralabials and the infralabials, and you can identify the scale rows the lateral stripe is in. You can even tell that the dorsal stripe has a very different colour than the lateral stripes. I did a bit of editing on my computer changing the contrast settings and even some black markings below the lateral stripe became visible. I don't see any red on it, though. It's a poor quality picture, apparently taken with a phone and not a camera.

What you can't count are teeth, total number of scale rows and subcaudal scales.

None of these eliminate the possibility that it's a hybrid, of course.
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