Alonnissos, Northern Sporades

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

Well... To me, it's clear enough. The shape of the parietals is even also different. All the colour aspects you listed are unreliable, especially post mortem, except perhaps the striped scales, but that is hardly visible in dead ones like this. I learned from misidentifying a dead snake on Samos

[Ilian Velikov]

Ok, what you're saying makes sence - caspius it is.

[Mark Barber]

Here's another close up if that helps...

RTA snake

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

... which has me doubting again
It seems I CAN see the lining of that typical Malpolon frontale now...

[Ilias Strachinis]

Still caspius to me: eye-mouth opening proportions, shape and order of scales in general, too short and round prefrontals (malpolon has long V shaped prefrontals), too long (big) internasals, verical bars on supralabials, shape of last supralabial, etc. Dead reptiles often go bluish.

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

Dead reptiles often go bluish.

Very true. I remember bright blue DOR vivipara and agilis.

[Ilian Velikov]

Yes, looks more like caspius now looking at the close up. I can just see the lighter band in the middle of some of the scales + everything you guys said.

[Mark Hanger]

Just for the record, I visited Alonnissos about 20 years ago. I saw a few very large capius, and a DOR V.ammodytes.