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[mustang]

how can you tell the difference of a cal. red sided from a san fransisco garter?

[anchietae]

California red-sideds have red bars or blotches between the stripes. San Francisco Garters have red (or orange) stripes between the mid-dorsal and lateral stripes. I don't have any tetrataenia pics for comparison. They are both gorgeous!

Here's an California red-sided (infernalis) and a Red-spotted (concinnus) for comparison.

[anchietae]

ConcinnusMan-Beautiful snakes!

[ConcinusMan]

TKS, your two snakes are incredible!

If I had to guess I would say that the concinnus is from the southern portion of their range? I'm just saying I noticed the colors tend to start looking more like infernalis if you find concinnus in the southern extremes of their range.