Triva - Fuscus's Ulitimate Creature Kontest

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[Switch]

Woma (Aspidites ramsayi)

 

[Switch]

Black Head doesnt come down to SA according to Cogger, Sixth Edition

 

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[Switch]

Liasis Stimsoni

 

[Pinkie]

Q3 Name the species of pythons whose natural range includes the state of South Australia. One species per member, one point per species. if you submit a list, I will only accept the first species listed and ignore the rest.

 

[Fuscus]

ARRRRHHHHH.
The two species are the woma (wattso) and the carpet (saikrett). It is actually the Murray-Darling sub-species but I did ask which SPECIES. We miss out on the bredi by a couple of hundred kilometers. I just double checked and Stimsons makes it 3 so Pinkie gets a point too. The Ehmann book (Aust Museum) has the stimsons range covering most of SA right down to Port Augusta and the Flinders Ranges (But I might take that with a grain os salt). I've never heard of Antaresia Saxacola Cambelli nor can I find any references so we will regard that anwser wrong unless proved otherwise.

points

Alexander 1
Wattso 4
saikrett 1
Pinkie 1
Everyone else 0

Q whatever Name the 2 sub species of the Carpet python whose range includes Victoria. Again one species per member, one point per species and only the first answer accepted.

 

[wattso]

morelia spilota varigata

 

[Brodie]

Diamond python

 

[Switch]

Murry Darling (Inland) and Diamond

 

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[NoOne]

Hey wattso, varigata is a darwin carpet.

 

[Alexahnder]

South Western and diamond

 

[wattso]

Um..oh well No-one, Darwin/victoria.....its just down the road mate

 

[saikrett]

Diamond
coastal

 

[Fuscus]

First off I have to make a scoring correction As has been pointed out to me, the rules for Q3 I stated said that one species per member so wattso used up his turn with his Bredi answer. Sorry mate, I have to drop a point off you and award it to switch. I'll report to the whipping post ASAP


Now the Antaresia Saxacola Cambelli question. There is a paper here http://www.smuggled.com/pytrev1.htm that confirms what RR said BUT it is NOT a subspecies of stimsoni but a seperate species. So RR scores a point.

The corrected points are

Alexander 1
Wattso 3
saikrett 1
Pinkie 1
Switch 1
Reptile Rascals 1

Everyone else 0

And I thought this was going to be easy. Its not a good week to try and stop sniffing glue .


Now the answer to the Victorian carpet snake question is the Murray-Darling (M s metcalfei) and the Diamond (M s spilota) so Brodie scores for the Diamond. By the (self-inflicted) rules Switch first answer was the Murray-Darling.
A number of people answered the coastal, its range is the QLD coast and the northern NSW coast.

So points are now

Alexander 1
b.Wattso 3
saikrett 1
Pinkie 1
Switch 2
Reptile Rascals 1
Brodie 1
Everyone else 0

Now that thats settled here is the next question.

There is a town called Springbook in QLD. It is up in the mountains behind the Gold Coast. In that area is a snake the locals call the "Yellow bellied black snake". Its colors are, um, black with a yellow belly. It is also a color variety of a wild spread and varible species of snake. What is the name of that snake?
Normal rules - One species per member, one point per species and only the first answer accepted.