Striped Zamenis longissimus from northern Italy
Posted: Mon May 07, 2018 2:42 pm
A friend of mine sent to me this picture, of a snake he has found in his garden, in the hills of Oltrepo' Pavese (Pavia, Northern Italy).
It happened to me in the past to find in the same hills yellow striped longissima, but the cases were not so common: especially the cases of specimens so well striped to resemble a Pantherophis obsoletus quadrivittatus!
I remember a DOR striped specimen when I was a child (it seemed really a quadrivittata!) and then I've found a total of 4-5 well striped specimens in all my life...
This specimen, photographed by my friend Max, is so well striped that a picture on the Forum is really worth it.
It happened to me in the past to find in the same hills yellow striped longissima, but the cases were not so common: especially the cases of specimens so well striped to resemble a Pantherophis obsoletus quadrivittatus!
I remember a DOR striped specimen when I was a child (it seemed really a quadrivittata!) and then I've found a total of 4-5 well striped specimens in all my life...
This specimen, photographed by my friend Max, is so well striped that a picture on the Forum is really worth it.