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Is this snake a lancehead?
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by sFear on February 14, 2015
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Hello,
My friend and I are having a dispute about whether the snake in the following link is a "lancehead" snake or not.
http://zazenlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/snake-eyez2.jpg
(If you don't want to visit that link for some reason, you can also find the image by searching "green lancehead" on Google---it's the first image zoomed real close to the head of the snake, focusing on the eye.)
[NOT my picture, by the way. Not trying to take credit for the picture; just trying to find out if it is in fact a lancehead snake or not.]
If it is a lancehead snake, could you explain how you know?
Thank you for your time!
Sincerely,
sFear
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RE: Is this snake a lancehead?
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by LarryDFishel on February 14, 2015
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Green Tree Python.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morelia_viridis
How do I know? Because the prefrontal scales are too small for an Emerald Tree Boa.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corallus_caninus
And all those "pits" are completely wrong for whichever species you happen to mean by "lancehead" (that's a pretty misused term, but usually refers to a species of the genus Bothrops).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bothrops
(I had to look up some photos to say whether it a GTP or an ETP, but I knew instantly from looking at the photo to know it was one of the two.)
When I search for the term "green lancehead" on images.google.con, I see lots of photos of things that I've never heard called a "lanchead" (pythons, boas, king cobras, gaboon vipers...).
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