For all of, believing you are able to distinguish hatchlings of H. viridiflavus and H. gemonensis, when occur sympatric (for example Krk island, Croatia)
I will give the solution in a few days
Mario Schweiger wrote:no, all are (viridiflavus) carbonarius from a communal nesting site in Abruzzo mountains.
There are more variation pictures in this paper:
MORPHOLOGICAL TRAITS OF HATCHLINGS OF THE WESTERN WHIP SNAKE Hierophis viridiflavus (LACÉPÈDE, 1789) FROM A CENTRAL ITALIAN POPULATION
So, I was right... But it was an unfair question, because inside the question was implicit that at least
some (or one) of those babies should have been a gemonensis... Very unfair, but I suspected the trick!
Ruggero Morimando wrote: But even then I couldn't find and indicate a single gemonensis... Obvious reason: none was there, as I wrote at once!
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