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DMong
at Tue Jan 29 19:51:25 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DMong ]
LOL!,......yes, I agree on a lot of that too,....many milks at times can be a REAL headache to distinguish from one another, if at ALL, and when intergradation enters the equation,.....the words virtually impossible come to mind..LOL! I see animals in MANY books that are just ridiculous examples of the subspecies that's "supposed" to be represented. One thing I will say with certainty, the micropholis photographed by Glenn Slemmer that is represented in ~Systematics and Natural History of the American Milksnake~ by K.Williams is by FAR the best example I've ever seen to date. As a matter of fact, it is the ONLY pure example I've ever seen,... period. There are NO pure examples in this country at all to my knowledge as of yet. There are a few very nice andesiana x micropholis natural intergrades available in this country, but no "pure" ones from a very low elevation i.e. the Canal zone of Panama for example.
And yes,.....temporalis RULE!!!
~Doug
----- "Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"
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- Newbie has some questions. - Freis, Mon Jan 28 09:38:35 2008
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