Talk:Smooth Green Snake
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Can anyone confirm that Image:Green, yellow snake.jpg is of a Smooth Green Snake? -- Solipsist 20:09, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Its a nice close up of the head. I am not sure of the identification and I am no expert. Googling for images of "smooth green snake" gives a few with very similar eyes and shape of head but a range of coloring. Candian Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Network has the closest I have found. But the Rough Green Snake Opheodrys aestivu shown at http://herpcenter.ipfw.edu/index.htm?http://herpcenter.ipfw.edu/gallery/snakes/&2 looks very similar to the head of the unidentified snake, perhaps more similar. Note the comment that the keeling on the scales is a way to tell the two apart. The same source says of the smooth green snake "The belly is ivory and the throat is pale white", and that agrees with our unidentified snake. The source for the photo says that it is in a reptile house, so could be from anywhere.We need an expert! Billlion 21:39, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
