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Re: Small Quiz for you: which snake is this?

Postby Jeroen Speybroeck » Thu Jun 11, 2015 7:39 am

Aleksandar’s => Natrix natrix
Edvard’s => Hierophis gemonensis
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Re: Small Quiz for you: which snake is this?

Postby Alexandre Roux » Thu Jun 11, 2015 9:09 am

Berislav Horvatic wrote:
Alexandre Roux wrote:Just not to be with you I'll go for a H. gemonensis too !

Just risking to prove being a total idiot, or a "pain in the ass", may I remind you that what we're discussing
are two different photos of two (most probably) different snakes, from different sources... So, even if they
might happen to be of the same species (which I don't believe), the individuals shown here are not one and
the same... Or have I perhaps missed something that's obvious to everybody else around here but me?!
So, please, puh-leez, just take the trouble of stating clearly which of the two offered riddles you actually
refer to... Thank you.


I go for the first picture of course, the second one obviously is a gemonensis :lol:
But don't worry I still don't think you're a "total idiot" !

But to be honnest, I don't think I'm right with my gemonensis on Aleksandar's picture as the snake looks wet = Natrix natrix. But it's too late to change my mind ahah
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Re: Small Quiz for you: which snake is this?

Postby Jeroen Speybroeck » Thu Jun 11, 2015 10:42 am

Alexandre Roux wrote:I go for the first picture of course, the second one obviously is a gemonensis :lol:

Don't be too sure - there's these weird-looking caspius at times. I remember one (DOR?) from a herpetofauna.at report, I think.
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Re: Small Quiz for you: which snake is this?

Postby Alexandre Roux » Thu Jun 11, 2015 11:18 am

Jeroen Speybroeck wrote:
Alexandre Roux wrote:I go for the first picture of course, the second one obviously is a gemonensis :lol:

Don't be too sure - there's these weird-looking caspius at times. I remember one (DOR?) from a herpetofauna.at report, I think.


I'm almost sure Edvard posted it to illustrate why he was thinking of H.gemonensis (so his picture may be one of his gemonensis pictures).

And I found this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/edvardmiz ... ateposted/
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Re: Small Quiz for you: which snake is this?

Postby Jeroen Speybroeck » Thu Jun 11, 2015 12:46 pm

Alexandre Roux wrote:And I found this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/edvardmiz ... ateposted/

Cheater! :P
I'll admit that gemo was more likely than caspius (cf. my own guess).
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Re: Small Quiz for you: which snake is this?

Postby Mario Schweiger » Thu Jun 11, 2015 2:30 pm

Jeroen, I think you have been thinking on this one
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Hierophis gemonensis, "baby", Montenegro.
I've seen similar near Amfissa, Greece and near Dubrovnik (last location definitively out of the range of caspius).
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Re: Small Quiz for you: which snake is this?

Postby Jeroen Speybroeck » Thu Jun 11, 2015 3:04 pm

Probably, so in that case I was wrong and it's also a gemonensis.
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Re: Small Quiz for you: which snake is this?

Postby Berislav Horvatic » Thu Jun 11, 2015 7:25 pm

It seems to me that the time is ripe for A. S. to reveal who's the lucky winner.
Well, Sale?
(If it's really a gemo, then, where? Montenegro or... could it be Pčinja?)
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Re: Small Quiz for you: which snake is this?

Postby Aleksandar Simovic » Fri Jun 12, 2015 3:33 pm

Sorry Bero i was in the field, so i was not able to reply here.

Snake i posted few days ago is H. gemonensis from Montenegro, adult male. I will post more photos later :) first time in my life i saw gemonensis like that.
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Re: Small Quiz for you: which snake is this?

Postby Alexandre Roux » Fri Jun 12, 2015 4:00 pm

Aleksandar Simovic wrote:Sorry Bero i was in the field, so i was not able to reply here.

Snake i posted few days ago is H. gemonensis from Montenegro, adult male. I will post more photos later :) first time in my life i saw gemonensis like that.


Thank you ! I was starting changing my mind to a Natrix, you just saved my honor
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