Snakes of all kinds.

[dhingarhdz]

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@dhingarhdz -- Pretty cute retic you have now. At 3-4ft., that's still a baby. Question is, what are you gonna do then if it'll be over 10 or 15ft. adult, and weighs around 50kgs or more?

Well, when she's gonna get that big probably I'm gonna donate her to either Crocolandia park or to the Cebu city zoo (My wife knows the caretaker there.)

[herp_doctor]

hehehe catsnake!! so I guessed it right then ahihihih~ funny though, dog-tooth cat snake.. whoever found this snake first is a funny man, hehehe..

question sir, colubrids do have lidless eyes? dilated i mean.. I thought kasi catsnakes are of viper family.. enlighten me~ tnx

Boiga cynodon, as the name suggested... CYNODON, meaning canine-toothed & BOIGA, meaning cat-like. The bloke who discovered the species didn't mean to be a wanker, he was jsut describing the snake as he found it. And the distiguishing marks, features it carries that made it different from other similar looking species.

And all snakes does have eyelids, though you just can't see them or distinguish them. They're permanently fused around their eyes as a protective covering. This is a transparent "scale" so to say, called Spectable or Brille. You can only notice them when a snake molts it's skin (thus you can recognize a snake about to molt from its clouded eyes, like it's suffering from a bad case of Glaucoma). And no, identifying Ophidians by merely the eyes IS NEVER a good way.

Catsnakes (Boiga spp.) are not Viperids, they're Colubrids. For starters, their dentition differs a bloody lot. Snake dentition are categorized into four morphs (and two sub-morphs): Opistoglyphs, Solenoglyphs, Proterogyphs & Aglyphs.

Aglyphs - "lacking fangs". This here belongs the Boidaes and most heavy-bodied constrictors.

Opistoglyphs - "rear-fanged, grooved". This here belongs the Catsnakes and all other rear-fanged Colubrids.

Proteroglyphs - "fixed front, short-fanged, hollow". This here belongs the cobras and the Elapids.

Solenoglyphs - "variable front-fanged, pipe-grooved". This here belongs the most efficient of all snake vemon delivery system, the Viperids.

The two sub-morphs applies to the unique Stilleto Vipers (Atracaspis spp.) and the blind Burrowing Snakes (Scolecophidia spp.) respectively. As they can't be classified into the four above, they were given a different dental taxon on their own.

[herp_doctor]

To all:

If you have snakes and for whatever reasons you won't / can't be able to take care of your snakes anymore, i'm willing to adopt them for you. This goes specially to venomous or aggressive or those specialized feeders.

So those here who has a cobra, viper, magrove, krait, etc... I can take care of them for you.

Just lemme know so we can do arrangements for them.

[moy1moy1]

so that explains it, hehehe...

I'm off to snake hunting this christmas hehe.. hoping to see the 'wolfsnake' that I caught before...

[herp_doctor]

so that explains it, hehehe...

I'm off to snake hunting this christmas hehe.. hoping to see the 'wolfsnake' that I caught before...

A L. capucinus?
If you find a G. oxyphalum, can you give me one too?? hehehe...

[Tamsik]

nice collection doc, but i'd rather skip looking at it or worst touching it. I don't know whats in me, but everytime I saw snake, i really have a strange feeling of vomiting and goosebumps appear in my arms....

[herp_doctor]

nice collection doc, but i'd rather skip looking at it or worst touching it. I don't know whats in me, but everytime I saw snake, i really have a strange feeling of vomiting and goosebumps appear in my arms....

Ophidiophobia ei...

[serepentes]

hmmmmm.. i have had numerous encounters with h.calligaster before when i was a kid in our province in catmon..

[serepentes]

we called it udto2x before and dogs were always the victims of these snakes..
especially during morning walks they tend to lay down on the paths..

[herp_doctor]

H. calligaster are one of the very unique and beatiful elapids i've encountered. There colors are fascinating, as well as their behavior. They're specialized feeders, fossorial and diurnal hunters...

Good thing you didn't try keeping one yourself, as this is one helluva bugger to keep. You need a constant supply of Calamaria spp. for tukker...