Bitis caudalis variety

Id love to see what caudalis are being kept, I will start with one that I have seen in Namibia.
I just love the red with feint marking. This is a male and sadly approximately 2kms earlier I found a fresh DOR female.

I also found 2 DOR of a similar caudalis but it was grey with also feint markings. So exactly the same as this one but with no red.

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I found 2 very big caudalis females crossing the road right by this outcrop
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Here are a few more habitat pics.
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Driving to Ai-Ais - xeropaga?
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Great stuff Rob , are you sure thats a caudalis ? To me that looks like Bitis deani , the last hab shot is intimidating...

Yeah its a beautiful snake, I wish I could have brought it home. Its funny, every road we drove had a different colour variety of caudalis. Seem to be according to habitat.

We walked around for xeropaga at Ai Ais but we were there too late. I think very early in the morning is the right time. That wouldve been excellent.

Awesome caudalis Rob, namibia has the most spectacular ones I have seen - in my eyes much more interesting then the SA ones. And usually much easier to get to feed on mice...:-) Do you have more pics of localities and speciemens you have found there ?

As a huge fan I would love to see what ever you can show :-)

Regards from Switzerland

Hi Andrew,

do you have the reference to the description of "Bitis deani"? Is at recently descriped valid taxon?

Best regards

Frank

@ Frank :-)

Rob Dean......Bitis ''deani''....take your time and think about it ;-) lol
Of course Bitis deani is not existing, don't panic you did not miss anything taxonomical.

Best whishes from SWitzerland

Marco

Haha you can trust Andrew to confuse everyone. Sorry Frank but Marco is correct. But watch this space, I am aware of at least 1 new dwarf bitis which will be described in the nearish future. Also some revision of existing species, namely the different forms of Bitis rubida. The B atropos group is also being revised and there may be 5 different species in there soon.

Marco - I will post more pics as soon as I get a chance. I agree with everything you said, Namib caudalis are much more interesting and do very well. I think people should be breeding locality specific animals too. There are some incredible varieties from Etosha, Spitzkoppe and others. Enough to work exclusively with.

Nice female from Namaqualand...

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Aspidelaps caudalis? Wink

Here are the tracks that this snake leaves behind. I have never seen it before. She sways her tail across the sand behind her wherever she goes. It is like she is sweeping away her tracks haha. The first time I saw it I thought she had given birth and these were tracks from the babies but I was dissapointed.
Anyone seen it before?
This snake measures 46cm.
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Here is a beautiful male I have. I really enjoy the Namib caudalis, far more than the SA specimens.
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For my part I is never observed this it is really curious.
Beautiful specimen but I prefer namaqualand.

You can say me, what is the size of your adults caudalis male? (if you have the weight this is the better:-) )
thanks

They make +-35cm.

My male is still small, only around 25cm. Will breed but Im afraid she will eat him. Smile

I see that many persons are afraid that he(it) is of the canibalisme to these bitis.

Esce more frequent than to of the other one sorts of snakes?