Strange Scaled Snake?

[eddie]

Has anyone here heard of the ' Strange Scaled Snake'?
I have a pic of one in one of my python books, but I can't find any information about them,
The pic is of a slightly blue colored snake, that has a line of scales down the ridge of its back very similar to an iggys raised back scales.
Any one have any links to them or any other help?
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	Iguana Iguana

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[JuliusSqueezer]

it's a colubrid? from what country and how did it get in a python book? lol...there is a rough scaled python in australia but it doesn't sound like what you are talking about...spine looking things sticking up like an iggy? I wanna see....anyway to scan it? was this book written by Stephen King by chance?
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	Iguana Iguana

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[eddie]

I'm not sure what kind of snake it is, I am *assuming* colubrid.
I can't locate my book right now and I believe it is in the back of the one like we have for sale on the site. The one for BPs if I remember right.

Oh yeah, I tried to get the pic of the book from that page, but the pics on that page won't display.

So I guess I found another bug!

I am going to a pet store tommorrow and look in their books, so I can get the Title for it and possibly the scientific name, but for some reason , I don't think it was listed.
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	Ball Python The Ball Python (Python regius), also known as the Royal Python, is a ground dwelling snake native to the savannahs and rain forests in western Africa, predominatly the countries of Ghana, Togo, and Benin.

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[JuliusSqueezer]

ahhh yes...scientific names always make web-searches easier. I will probably have nightmares about this spiney serpent till we figure out what the heck it is LOL.... [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]
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ummm, Jules, isn't the rough scaled snake from Australia venemous?? Tropidechis carinatus?
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[Princenez]

Maybe it is, but Jules was talking about the very rare rough scaled python. I don't know its scientific name, but I think it is in the Morelia family.
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[lizardlady]

Is that what happens to a snake on a "bad hair" day?
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[eddie]

I found the scientific name of the particular snake, which is also called a keel scaled snake.
It is Xenodermus javanicus.
Sub family of Xenoderminae , appears to have two subspecies, the other bieng Stoliczkia borneensis,which is a rear fanged, solid toothed snake from Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Sarawak and Sabah.

The only link I can find to them is Indonesia nature conservation database
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[eddie]

Here is the only pic I have...

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