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daveg
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Joined: 02 Jul 2006
No. of posts: 24


View other posts by daveg 		Posted: 10 Dec 2007

Hi foks

Hope its OK to ask for another foreign identification? Ive recently been catching a bit of winter sun in Oman on a work assignement. While driving from Nimr up to Nizwa last week we had a quick photo stop in the desert. The very first shrub I looked at had this snake in. At first I thought was shoelace but it remained motionless long enough to take some pics and then made its escape very rapidly into some other nearby mini bushes and evaded my clumsy attempts to catch it

I think it may be  a variety of sand snake or racer?

 

 

 

Thanks Dave

 
Wolfgang Wuster
Senior Member
Joined: 23 Apr 2003
No. of posts: 326


View other posts by Wolfgang Wuster 		Posted: 10 Dec 2007
Yup, that's a Psammophis schokari.

Nice find.

Cheers,

WW
Wolfgang Wüster
School of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor
http://sbsweb.bangor.ac.uk/~bss166/
daveg
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Joined: 02 Jul 2006
No. of posts: 24


View other posts by daveg 		Posted: 11 Dec 2007
Thanks Wolfgang
Since finding the snake I also picked up a copy of an excellent new book called the 'snakes of Arabia' by Damien Egan with plenty of great photos illustrations and distribution maps etc worth a look for any herpers heading this way.
Dave
Damien Egan
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Joined: 28 Dec 2007
No. of posts: 2


View other posts by Damien Egan 		Posted: 29 Dec 2007

Just noticed this. Cheers for the comp. Hope it proves useful. Check the photo credits and you'll notice Wolfgang's contributions.

 

 

Damien
daveg
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Joined: 02 Jul 2006
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View other posts by daveg 		Posted: 11 Jan 2008
Hi Damien
whoops sorry i didnt notice Wolfgangs credits.
Are you going to do a book on the lizards in the middle east?
cheers and Happy New Year to everyone.
Dave
Damien Egan
Member
Joined: 28 Dec 2007
No. of posts: 2


View other posts by Damien Egan 		Posted: 11 Jan 2008

Hi Dave

 

I doubt if I'd do a lizard book. In all honesty, I think I'll have left Arabia well within the time frame that a book on lizards would take (missing South Africa). There are a few very good lizard guys about like Drew Gardner and Thomas Wilms who would be better qualified for that. I'd be happy to do the illustrations though.

 

Take care

 

D

- Oman snake

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