Is Gonyosoma the accepted new genus for E. prasina? Very different animals from my experience.


I love the blue morph though.

Regards

Mark

Yes, it is.

Urs Utiger, Beat Schätti and Notker Helfenberger:
THE ORIENTAL COLUBRINE GENUS Coelognathus FITZINGER, 1843
AND CLASSIFICATION OF OLD AND NEW WORLD RACERS
AND RATSNAKES (REPTILIA, SQUAMATA, COLUBRIDAE, COLUBRINAE),
Russian Journal of Herpetology Vol. 12, No. 1, 2005, pp. 39 – 60

This is the study on which the taxonomic reassignment is based.

Cheers

Jürgen

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1,1 Elaphe dione; 1,1 Elaphe schrencki;
1,1 Zamenis persicus; 2,1 Rhinechis scalaris;
1,1 Gonyosoma prasinum