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Andrew Hacket
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PostSubject: Rare snake identification?   Rare snake identification? Icon_minitimeWed 18 Mar - 1:23
Received this interesting emails today ...

Has anyone seen this snakes before?
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PostSubject: Re: Rare snake identification?   Rare snake identification? Icon_minitimeWed 18 Mar - 2:02
The photos are very small and bad but I suggest it is may be elapsoidea spec ( 3 and 4 )

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PostSubject: Re: Rare snake identification?   Rare snake identification? Icon_minitimeWed 18 Mar - 4:03
Where were these specimens from?

ID is a bit difficult to tell with photos this small...

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PostSubject: Re: Rare snake identification?   Rare snake identification? Icon_minitimeWed 18 Mar - 5:55
Rumoured to be from West Africa , that is all we know.

I also thought of elapsoidea sp. but that would be a very slender elapsoidea, also why is the banding only on the first half of the snake?
I have never seen anything like the first animal.
Obviously the natives do not consider any of these animals to be venomous ! HAHA

Wolfgang, without further pictures would you hazard a guess?
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PostSubject: Re: Rare snake identification?   Rare snake identification? Icon_minitimeWed 18 Mar - 6:08
Hey Andrew,

the first one looks like a Dasypeltis sp. to me. Maybe a specimen shortly before shedding, that would explain the bright colour.

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PostSubject: Re: Rare snake identification?   Rare snake identification? Icon_minitimeWed 18 Mar - 11:35
I agree with Frank on the Dasypeltis. I think the color is because it is a bad photo. I spent a long time looking at the pictures and the body shape looks like Dasypeltis. Need to know the country at least though!
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PostSubject: Re: Rare snake identification?   Rare snake identification? Icon_minitimeSun 26 Apr - 22:35
The snake in the last picture reminds me of some Natriciteres species...I think not.. a Meizodon species?
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PostSubject: Re: Rare snake identification?   Rare snake identification? Icon_minitimeWed 11 Nov - 22:42
Picture one looks like Dasypeltis to me, too.

Picture 2 is not sharp...

Picture 3 and 4 show Elapsoidea. The only species in west africa are E. semiannulata moebiusi and E. trapei. So if you know at least which country they are from that may help to ID.

You can check Guide des serpents d'Afrique occidentale von Trape und Mane
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