RE: No, you are incorrect

Posted by: maroci at Mon Feb 6 22:46:09 2006 [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by maroci ]

*** ...it has just become widely accepted,but misleading and technically erroneous,to call them kingsnakes,or even a 'type of kingsnake'...they are each their own species in their own right. ***

There is nothing "technically erroneous" about it. It does not follow the common naming convention that you, for whatever reasons, prefer. That does not make it wrong. All kingsnake species, by definition, are species "in their own right." That does not stop them from being kingsnakes.

My naming convention (kingsnake = Lampropeltis) is widely used, and has the advantage of being rational, not the result of historical accidents where some species of getula got named kings and other got named milks (and still other subspecies of the milks got named kings again).

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Are milksnakes, kingsnakes? - LuisMarques, Tue Nov 29 14:28:05 2005 *HOT TOPIC*

RE: Are milksnakes, kingsnakes? - Plindsey, Wed Nov 30 08:08:20 2005

RE: Are milksnakes, kingsnakes? - LuisMarques, Wed Nov 30 08:16:02 2005

RE: Are milksnakes, kingsnakes? - mrand, Wed Nov 30 11:02:03 2005

RE: Are milksnakes, kingsnakes? - rhyion, Sat Jan 14 13:00:11 2006

incorrect... - justinian2120, Mon Jan 16 00:03:21 2006

No, you are incorrect - mci, Thu Jan 19 20:38:17 2006

RE: No, you are incorrect - justinian2120, Fri Feb 3 18:03:24 2006

Kingsnake = Lampropeltis. Period. - maroci, Mon Feb 6 22:27:55 2006

RE: No, you are incorrect - maroci, Mon Feb 6 22:46:09 2006

RE: No, you are incorrect - Deinagkistrodon, Fri Feb 3 18:16:28 2006

RE: No, you are incorrect - maroci, Mon Feb 6 22:35:47 2006

RE: No, you are incorrect - Jan Grathwohl, Wed Feb 15 04:54:21 2006

RE: Are milksnakes, kingsnakes? - CKing, Mon Apr 10 23:02:29 2006

Wrong.... - gratefuldead, Thu Apr 27 21:20:33 2006

RE: What have you been smoking? - CKing, Wed May 17 05:50:17 2006

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