Species Codes PLEASE HELP (Coastal)

[koubee]

Hi, I'm going to pick up my coastal today and was just checking through the species codes and i can't find coastal carpet python. I rang DSE and they can't find it either and told me NOT to put it under carpet python (2969), because the scientific name is different. Just wondering what those with coastals' have put them under and what is the code?
Thanks

[Russ]

Hi koubee,
Thats what I got, and the name I found that says "Coastal Carpet Python" is Morelia Spilota Mcdowelli. Hope that's of some help. So named in a book called "Keeping Carpet Pythons" by Simon Kortlang & Darren Green.
Mine is now two yrs old and a great snake, very good temperment and a good feeder. Hope you have the same.
Rgds Russ

[tyrone]

If ur in Vic put it under carpet python.....the only ones they differentiate in vic is diamonds and jungles

(morelia spilota spilota and morelia chenyi)

[peterescue]

In NSW the species codes can be downloaded from the DEC NPWS web site, its there somewhere on PDF as Ive downloaded it before. someone else may have the direct link.

[Keef]

Below is a link to the pdf Pete mentioned above:

http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/...ng_outline.pdf

[peterescue]

good one Keef.

[koubee]

Thanks guys, I'm in melbourne, when i went to get him the guy told me to put it under a carpet python but i'm not 100%
sure. So i'm waiting for the DSE to call me back with their findings.
He's a bit nippy but then so would i if i was so small. Either way i love him, teeth and all.
Will attempt to post a picture, sorry but my pics are not good quality as i took them with my phone.

[Glimmerman]

So i'm waiting for the DSE to call me back with their findings.

If they are like NSW you may have handed your book in by then :mrgreen:

[bikiescum2003]

had the same problem with a jungle few years back and DSE told me i was not alowed to keep it in vic because they did not have that name in there books. they said they would be sending someone around to collect it. after a week they rang me and told me that it goes under carpet python. bloody paper pushers!

[koubee]

Still waiting.....it'll proberly be like the wait for my license, 3weeks................yeah right, try 6weeks.
Not sure what to do, do i put it under carpet python?
Might just do as bikiescum2003 has done and put it under carprt python.

[Snow1369]

Originally Posted by koubee

Still waiting.....it'll proberly be like the wait for my license, 3weeks................yeah right, try 6weeks.

i got my license in 2 weeks! found it good service too.

[Bonustokin]

Heres the NSW Reptile Keepers licence species list for snakes. hope it helps.

[bikiescum2003]

if you are in NSW go by above post but if you are in vic i would not put it down as anything until you get the phone call as they know that you have called them to find out what it goes under. just put the date and person you received it off in your book until they call

[koubee]

Finally heard back from DSE snd they told me to put it down as a carpet python.
I should've realised that it should go under that. The Coastal part just refers to where it came from, at least that's what they told me.
Still not 100% sure as to weather i put it down as a Moreila s. mcdowelli or moreila s. variegata.
Might ring them back

[koubee]

i'm putting it under mcdowelli, man, the dse are annoying