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The finding is from an altitude of aprox. 900m ...on a meadow bordering a beech forest... with harsh winters and mild summer temps.

OK, thank you both.

Tomaz Jagar wrote:Since you clearly have caught the snake for the photos it shouldn't be too hard to count the ventrals on the spot, isn't it?
That would answer your question more or less immediately....

Sorry...I didnt see that
In the first sentence I wrote that I know the answer...so...
I also wrote that the snake was an young adult male more than 1 meter long.....

...and the 2 species to compare
viridiflavus

gemonensis


I think its possible to make a mess also with comparing berus and ursinii...and start scale counting etc...

Rok Grzelj wrote:In the first sentence I wrote that I know the answer...so...
I also wrote that the snake was an young adult male more than 1 meter long.....

Oops, I missed that part before...

I noticed something more interesting on a forum members(Pierre-Yves) website..

Here is the link:
http://www.batraciens-reptiles.com/tren ... ptiles.htm

check in the pic set(last 2 pics) "Jour 5, le 9 mai:"...the pic was taken around Vizinada (N Istria)

Little contribution on the topic:

http://web.bf.uni-lj.si/bi/NATURA-SLOVENIAE/pdf/NatSlo_13_2_6.pdf

In the second picture one can see the copper-coloured iris of the eye,
typical for H. viridiflavus, but not for H. gemonensis - the latter have
yellowish irises.

Berislav Horvatic wrote:In the second picture one can see the copper-coloured iris of the eye,
typical for H. viridiflavus, but not for H. gemonensis - the latter have
yellowish irises.

Didn't know that, thanks for that piece of info.

Regards, Tomaz

Congrats!

P.S.: You lost a word in the title

Berislav Horvatic wrote:In the second picture one can see the copper-coloured iris of the eye,
typical for H. viridiflavus, but not for H. gemonensis - the latter have
yellowish irises.

Throughout their entire (allopatric) ranges?