Not that common Eggeater

[Mongoose]

Send it to me and I'll tell you what color it turns in formalin.

[Bushviper]

Mongoose stop drinking the alcohol off the pickle jars. It has preserved your brain cells and the ones that it missed are in your ass!

Damien be aware I have friends at the embassy and just one rumour could make life very difficult for you. You have been warned, infidel.

[Durban Keeper]

Wow BV, that is an amazing snake, didn't find your lil feeding the egg eater to another snake pic all that funny. They are one of my favorite SA colubrids. That albino left me breathless though!!!

[froot]

Are there any pictures of other labino local snakes anyoen has hiding around?

What?



Not wild about morphs either but I think that's very different, very cool. Thanks BV.

[Fooble]

let me rephrase that terrible typo.

Are there any pictures of other albino Indigenous snakes people have out there?

Ive seen that albino mole snake and house snakes on here.

[damiensharjah]

Yeah

Here's a piebald albino rinkhals. Nasty piece of work. Bushviper knows this snake well.

[Fooble]

Thats a nice rinkals!
Was it captive bred or caught?

[damiensharjah]

Wild caught in Midrand.

[drummer]

i think its ugly as hell! still cool though

[Bushviper]

Last night I was told that there is an albino puff adder in a freezer in Rustenburg and I was promised photos. I am not holding my breath although another suspected albino was spotted in Ellisras area about 3 weeks ago. It was not even photographed because the people who saw it were too scared to get out the car. It did manage to cross the road safely.

Other species of which albinos have been found in SA are 1 x Olive house snake, 2 x Aurora house snake, At least 4 different Brown house snakes (Durban Pietermaritzburg, Pretoria and Nelspruit), 1x Cape wolf snake, 2 x Night adders, 1 x albino Rinkhals and 1 x partial leucistic Rinkhals pictured above, 1 x molesnake, piebald Shield nosed snake and Piebald Olive house snake. I have also seen striped Puff adders and a striped eggeater too.

[BushSnake]

...and striped skaapsteker

[MV]

An albino puffy in Ellisras area? I would take that bit of info with a pinch of salt, slice of lemon and a shot tequila.

If they were too scared to get out of the car, they probably couldn't have identified the snake positively. I heard about this, and from the descriptions that I got, it sounded more like a fat light colored Pseudaspis cana( according to what I heard, the head was not distinctly big).

But hey, you never know.

[damiensharjah]

... partial leucistic Rinkhals pictured above, ....

What's the difference between a leucistic rinkhals and a piebald albino?

[Mitton]

Other species of which albinos have been found in SA are 1 x Olive house snake, 2 x Aurora house snake, At least 4 different Brown house snakes (Durban Pietermaritzburg, Pretoria and Nelspruit), 1x Cape wolf snake, 2 x Night adders, 1 x albino Rinkhals and 1 x partial leucistic Rinkhals pictured above, 1 x molesnake, piebald Shield nosed snake and Piebald Olive house snake. I have also seen striped Puff adders and a striped eggeater too.

Unless there are pictures I don't believe any of it!! I know there are pics of some of them but I want to see the rest.

[Bushviper]

Damien, the eye colour plays a big role. That rinkhals had wine red eyes whereas a piebald would have black eyes and a black tongue. Thats how I have it, but possibly there is a better description.

The albino puffie was not described to me as an albino but a bright yellow puff adder with one black markings but white chevrons down its back. It was huge" and they showed me about 40 cm long so they are not that bad to blow everything out of proportion.

Bushsnake I have not seen pics of the albino skaapsteker and was not aware of it. Any other info?

The one olive house snake was described in the HAA journal but the picture is in black and white! Not a great help now really. The aurora was published in one of the first Reptiles magazines many years ago. The photograph belongs to the Transvaal museum as does the Cape Wolf snake.