MY opinion is a hybrid is what occurs when Genus is crossed such as has been done with elapheXgetula, etc, a crossing of Ssp. within the same genus IMHO would be considered an intergrade



Your example itself is incorrect, and this is exactly the kind of thing we need to gaurd against. Elaphe is a genus, and getula is a species. "Elaphe x Lampropeltis" would be correct, as would "E. guttata x L. getula". (I do realize that Elaphe guttata is now Pantherophis guttatus. I just ran with his example.)



i thought this discussion was about terminoligy and its uses in the HOBBY, and IMHO the terms interspecific,intra,etc are to scientific and quite frankly boring and non descriptive



Actually, this hobby is quite scientific, to say the least. Prefixes such as inter- and intra- are actually MUCH MORE descricptive than just saying "hbrid", reguardless of how boring it sounds. This is also the case when some of us say "albino" referring to amelanistic, anerythristic, lavender, hypomelanistic, snow, hybino, ghost... That is just too general, and IMHO, the word "albino" should never be used when discussing ANY animal with more than one pigment.



I began this discussion so that we could determine the correct terms for all of us to know and use so that we can weed out all of the unnecessary "common" terms which are usually far to general and, quite frankly, wrong.



I hope I didn't sound to harsh. It wasn't intended that way!
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