Southern Cross Guessing comp.Woma,Blackhead,Jungle as prize

[SnakeWrangler]

:lol:, I actually meant the locality of the animal.

With guess 6, do you mean the family (Genus) of the animal?

 

[Rennie]

Damn! :evil: Now I'm 2 behind. My first thought was Boiga Irregularis but I thought that was too obvious, it had to be a trick, so I answered Dendrelaphis punctulata. :lol:

 

[SnakeWrangler]

So how did you guys that got it right know what it was?

 

[tan]

book

 

[Nome]

Just out of interest what are the small lumps on the BTS body?

Skin worms by the looks, pretty common in WC BTSs.

i guessed because it looked like one, and the skin worms helped too.

 

[SnakeWrangler]

What book Tan?

:lol: Nome, but what made it look like one?

 

[waruikazi]

So how did you guys that got it right know what it was?

actually by the shape of the scales and the triangular shape of the body's cross section.

 

[tan]

A Photographic guide to snakes and other reptiles of aust by Gerry Swan :wink: and same as waruikazi said, scales and body shape, I've learnt no to go by colour

 

[jordo]

Thanks Nome, I used the lumps for my ID as well but I've never seen skin worms before so I thought I'd just check that it wasn't a fluke

 

[jordo]

What book Tan?

Nome, but what made it look like one?

Cogger.
It had a slender body, too many scales to be a python and it was brown was what I first thoughts.
SW check out some threads of BTSs and compare the scales.

 

[SnakeWrangler]

Yeah, obviously color can be very misleading. I recently bought 'A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia' so that I could identify reptiles better and this is what it has to say about BTS:

Two regionally distinct colour forms occur. Eastern form is pale to rich reddish brown above, with narrow, irregular, dark bands or variegations, and belly orange to salmon pink. Northern form is cream above and below with prominent rich red bands.

A picture showing each form is given and both look nothing like the one in the comp. I am starting to wonder how useful this book is going to be when it comes to identifying reptiles, there is absolutely no mention of a BTS possibly being flat brown like shown in the comp image. You would think that a 'complete guide' would at least give mention to the fact that they can come with no banding at all. :?

 

[waruikazi]

don't worry Wrangler, there is still 25 odd questions to go... you could still win

 

[junglepython2]

A picture showing each form is given and both look nothing like the one in the comp. I am starting to wonder how useful this book is going to be when it comes to identifying reptiles, there is absolutely no mention of a BTS possibly being flat brown like shown in the comp image. You would think that a 'complete guide' would at least give mention to the fact that they can come with no banding at all.

I thought the exact same SnakeWrangler :cry:

 

[AGAMIDAE]

So how did you guys that got it right know what it was?

have them in collection...

 

[waruikazi]

A picture showing each form is given and both look nothing like the one in the comp. I am starting to wonder how useful this book is going to be when it comes to identifying reptiles, there is absolutely no mention of a BTS possibly being flat brown like shown in the comp image. You would think that a 'complete guide' would at least give mention to the fact that they can come with no banding at all.

I thought the exact same SnakeWrangler :cry:

Guess you can't learn everything from a book then can you? :roll: lol

 

[Slateman]

:lol:, I actually meant the locality of the animal.

With guess 6, do you mean the family (Genus) of the animal?

Sunshine coast mate.

 

[Retic]

I must admit it was the first thing I thought when I saw it and couldn't think of anything else it could be, I don't pay much attention to colouring.

 

[Slateman]

I mean scintific name of specie , not only genus. This will be impossible to determent from this picture, and some people will get lucky , some unlucky. But with bit of knowledge you should be able to cut it down to 3 options.

Question 6 is real guess.

 

[SnakeWrangler]

Yeah alright smarty pants... :lol:

I am not annoyed that I got the answer wrong, I can live with that, I can't imagine I have much of a shot at winning the comp anyway, but it is fun so I will stay in it. I just thought the book should have all the bases covered, I understand that colour is variable within snakes but there is nothing in the description that even lends to the idea of no banding whatsoever.

Thanks slateman.

 

[Retic]

:lol:

Yeah alright smarty pants... :lol: