question for the experts here: whats most primitive snake in hobby?

[PatrickT]

Topic says ut all, whats the most primitive snake species avaivable in the hobby?

[Albert Clark]

I wold venture to say it's the garter snake. A temperate zone species that has covered most continents and is the mainstay of herpetoculture.

[PatrickT]

no ha ha i should have been more specific. I mean in evolutionary thinking

[RAD House]

My guess would be some sort of blind snake or worm snake.

[FWK]

My guess would be some sort of blind snake or worm snake.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure Blind Snakes (order Scolecophidia) are the oldest known snakes still in existence. Boas immediately come to mind as well, what with their two functioning lungs and pelvic girdle. Interesting question, I'll have to do some reading tonight when I get home.

[Jim Smith]

According to a Google search, the two blind snakes are considered the most primitive snakes alive. That said, I'm not sure how prevalent they are in the hobby.

eptotyphlops dulcis Texas Blind Snake
Leptotyphlops humilis Western Blind Snake

[PsychoSnake]

According to a Google search, the two blind snakes are considered the most primitive snakes alive. That said, I'm not sure how prevalent they are in the hobby.

eptotyphlops dulcis Texas Blind Snake
Leptotyphlops humilis Western Blind Snake
Very rare. I think I have only read one article about keeping blind snakes and it was about one that died.

Another one would be the Calabar burrowing python/boa.

[Doug 351]

In my neighborhood it's the Texas two legged redneck!

[FWK]

Found a pretty good, though brief, breakdown from the Life is short, but snakes are long (http://snakesarelong.blogspot.com/) blog. It has references for just about everything mentioned, including links to several papers if you want some heavy reading.

Basics of Snake Taxonomy (http://snakesarelong.blogspot.com/2013/05/basics-of-snake-taxonomy.html)