Does anyone know if someone has every crossed a squam with a chlorechis or vise-versa? Or could it even be done? The reason I ask is because on page 21 of R.D. Bartlett & Kenneth Wray's book entitled "Vipers" there is a picture of a chlorechis that has an intense amount of blotched yellow throughout its body. It is labeled as an abnormally colored chlorechis but I still couldn't help but wonder if perhaps it was a hybrid.

Hi Brance,
I have this book. I think, it is a not typical cholrechis! Because, this is not the first picture of such an chlorechis! There was a aditional one from the Tai Natinal Park in Ivory Coast. Maby it is the same specimen. Think about the coloration of some juvenils, the are sometimes realy yello and why the must change all of them nealy to 100% the color into green? I have had a couple from Ghana, the male was not green, it was more blueish, and very often you find ones with dots on there back... I have seen a lot of fresh importet ones the last years. There is a big variety of coloration a pattern. But, unfortunly I have never fund a chlorechis like this on the picture! Thats a fact! Then when there was such an one, be sure I will have them ;-)

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Peter

Hi,
it´s me again. So, you can find an aditional picture of such a A. chlorechis in the Book from Dobiey & VOGEL (2007): Venomous snakes of Afrika ,from Edition Chimaira - Terralog. It is the one from Ivory Coast! But there more of them in other books, I´m sure.

Peter

Thanks Peter, I appreciate your response. Does the one from the Ivory Coast look like it could be the same individual? I would imagine someone out there has tried to cross the two species but whether or not they want to admit it is another subject. I think the pictured snake in question is a real beauty and definitely wouldn't mind having one or more in my collection as well!

Hi Brance,
it isn´t the same individual! Sure! The patterns are not the same. But the form of the coloration is. Maby the one you knows is from the same location. Maby it is ,,location morph´´? But I don´t know.

Don't know the piture but I know "high yellow" chlorechis.