Thanks, Doug! They certainly are shy girls. Hopefully some of my boys like them! They key as good hondurans, although one does show a more narrow, orange snout band with a characteristic stuarti "V" shape to it. Abutting subspecies intergrade broadly, and I think we're just starting to get a grasp on the range deliniations for the various Latin American forms. Williams' book is a good starting place, but as a few folks (like Scott Ballard, Jeff Hardwick, Nate Wells, and Shannon Brown) have been finding a few "mistakes".



I don't know where they were collected, to be honest. The only info I could get is that they were shipped out of NW Honduras. Political borders probably mean little to the locals of that region and animals from Guatemala and El Salvador likely end up in shipments along with specimens from the entire country of Honduras. I've seen animals that were shipped out of Honduras that key as hondurensis, polyzona, stuarti, and abnorma. It seems to be a sort of exportation hub from that portion of Central America.



-Cole

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