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justinian2120
at Fri Sep 8 15:45:12 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by justinian2120 ]
....a black rat(elaphe obsoleta) with that much pattern would have to be no more than a year old.can tell from your pic that that snake is bigger/older than that.looks pretty much to me like an anerythristic(no red pigment) cornsnake..could possibly be a hybrid with a black rat(corns have been successfully hybridized with species a lot less closely related to them than the ratsnakes-so it's very possibly a hybrid)...that being said,i can see it being 100% corn,but definitely not a pure black rat imho.
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don't believe that's a true obsoleta.... - justinian2120, Fri Sep 8 15:45:12 2006