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eric23

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Hello all,

I've been into reptiles for a while and bred hundreds of different types of geckos over the past twenty something years so I feel a little stupid here but can someone tell me what kind of snake this is. My 16 year old daughter bought this at a show as an albino gopher but it looks like a corn snake to me. Am I crazy ??

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Are the scales keeled (raised line down middle of each scale) or smooth?

Is the anal plate single or divided?

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Yeah that is a corn snake. Looks like a Snow Corn on my screen :)

Definitely not a Pituophis (gopher, pine, bull)
 
eric23 said:
The anal plate is divided and the scales are smoothe

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Smooth or weakly keeled scales and a divided anal plate are scalation characteristics of a corn snake. Strongly keeled and single anal plate are characteristics of Pituophis.

That said, hybrids exists between corn snakes and gopher snakes. These are called turbo corns. Unfortunately, I'm not really finding much regarding them in my searchings.

Based on scalation, I'd call it a corn snake. Coloration wise, it looks like a snow (anerythristic type A x albino). Though I've seen and owned male snow corns that are that orange, it is plausible there could be some creamsicle (albino cornsnake x great plains rat snake) influence going on there.
 
Pic colors vary so much for each of us. It looks like tan saddles not orange on my screen.:shrugs:
I keep a Snow corn, Creamsicle and 3 pituophis in my collection currently.
Creamsicles can vary a bit in color and head shape but that looks like a snow corn shape and color to me. My Creamsicle and others I've had and seen have a more "arrow head" head shape.
It has no pituophis markers. It is not a pituophis or a hybrid of such.
To call it a Albino gopher snake was "crazy" of the seller. NOT you :)


HerpsOfNM, I liked your approach through scale ID. NICE !
 
It's definitely orange and white. When it sheds it's super bright

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