Just one list guys?
I have notes and lists everywhere. Snake lists and notes scrawled on top of weaving drafts (since I haven't spent much time at the loom lately). One day several weeks ago, I was listening to HerpNationRadio, and some well known herp vet was on...can't remember his name, and don't ask me to find the notes - they are somewhere in the pile...
That got me started. Then, I was jotting down names of snakes I found interesting, for future lookup. That turned out to be maybe maybe every snake I actually know of. But, the Latin names were confusing to me. What's with the Boas??? Russo said boas were New World, but the Kenyan and Indian sand boas are of course, Old World... At that point, I had to get everything figured out taxonomically from family on down. Wiki was mostly consistant for this. But then, I started wondering, what does the word Drymarchian actually mean?, what does Lampropeltis mean??...and, how come we get Lamprophiidae for the African House Snake family, and Lampropeltis for the genus of King Snakes?...kind of confusing. I had trouble finding meaningful latin for other categories; apparently "coluber" simply means "snake" in Latin - not really helpful. I'm still mixing up the Emerald Tree Boa with the Green Tree Python, and the Amazon Tree Boa, but no worries; it's all (with the Latin) in the notes!
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