Quote Originally Posted by drache View Post
Xenochrophis vittatus
another common name is striped keelback
they are in the same family and probably share common ancestry with garters
it is said that garters developed into live bearers when they entered the Americas via the land connection at the Bering Strait
where did you get yours, Shannon?
Everyone's related if you go back far enough. I don't think Xenochrophis and Thamnophis are closely related, this may be more about convergent evolution than actual "kinship". Naturally, I could be wrong, but I think Thamnophis was actually much more closely related to Rhabdophis.