Justdragons
Very Well-Known Member
surley over time this is how most local specific morelia came about until their numbers were so large that the were documented and labeled?
i live just past coffs at a place called mullaway , have most of my life and i find animals that are most deffinetly not what you would call straight up coastals , they definitely have an intergrade appearance like this one for instance , caught it under my verandah one late one night in mullaway approximately 30 mins NORTH of coffs (oh and the pics dont show it well but the flecks where a yellowy green colour )Don't know what the Intergrades look like that far north (...and was always of the belief that the intergrade zone extended to Coffs Harbour, maybe not). The ones I have seen wild around Port Macquarie are quite distinctive from a Coastal or a Diamond - you would not have a lot of trouble identifying them.
the word intergrade doesnt sound as good as rainforest or northern diamond
I personally prefer Port Macquarie python.......gives it a locale with some definition of where they are found. Northern Diamond or Rainforest Diamond are nice names, but I think giving them a locale based named gives them a little more credence.
I have a couple of pics of a really nice wild Port Mac Python that was residing in the back yard of a work colleague who abutts natural bushland reserve not far from my house. They are not great pics.....but you can see how nice a specimen it is and how it differs from Coastals and Diamonds. Will try to post them up
Wow, Bart, very green. Healthy too!
Ok...Here are the pics. Got them loaded quicker than I thought. Sorry for the poor quality, the photographer was not a snake enthusiast!
This fellow hung around the back corner of a work colleagues yard in Port Macquarie - his property adjoins a large'ish bushland reserve. It was there for a day or two before moving on. He only found it because he chased a stray cat along his rear fenceline - the cat took off then 'froze' instantly in one location. He wandered over and found the python!
I questioned him about the very bright green colours - they were not the result of a flash, the snake was actually quite bright in green/lime/yellow. I have seen similar pics of specimens from the area also. From what I have seen of them, they are quite different to high grade yellow Diamonds - they are very 'green' by comparison, and sort of lack the 'black specking' between the yellow/green (for want of a better term....don't know the technically correct one!).
When I look at these, I don't see any confusion with Diamond or Coastal, although some further north and south may not be as brightly coloured or marked.
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