Dodoma Flame Race Sandboa

This is a wild-caught adult female sandboa from Dodoma, Tanzania. This population is apparently an isolated population of Kenyan sandboas, as Dodoma is located more than a hundred miles south of other localities for Kenyan sandboas. We call them the flame race, because they are such beautiful snakes. Unfortunately, only one shipment of Dodoma sandboas was ever received in the US; Tanzania stopped the export of all boas and pythons shortly after the Dodoma population was discovered.