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Posted by: crotalus at Tue Aug 5 13:42:15 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by crotalus ] I'm trying to pull some information from my dim and distant past now, but it seems to me that the "real" nigritis came from Durango, Mexico. They were jet black as babies and of course grew into jet black adults. A guy named Ed Minor had these back in the late '70s and early '80s. That was when they were rare (remember when pueblans were rare?). The pitch was that as you go north the population had a tendency to get more speckled, so possibly an intergrade. But like all intergrades, the babies may show traits from one side or the other or any combination available from the gene pool. The nigritis in that beautiful photo posted by kw53 looks just like the ones we used to call "Durango". Maybe someone didn't want to feed a bunch of babies and let a batch go. Maybe it's just showing the black traits. Whatever the snake is, it's one heck of a find! | ||
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