Non-cornlike head markings and the yellow ground coloration are the most obvious hybrid markers I see in that snake. Sometimes, aberrant belly pattern is also on hybrids. You see, the nature of the UNNATURAL SELECTION going on in the captive snake world, lends itself to things changing. Getting away from the NORMAL look of corns, because most people want the oddities within the species. If everyone has a normal looking corn, they want unNORMAL colors. If Okeetees have the classic color theme of different reds, we want one with a yellow ground coloration. Hence, some of the atypical members of a particular corn snake morph are actually the result of selective breeding within the species to change this or that. They are still corns, but some choose to quicken the process by infusing the traits of alien species into corns, in order to change the looks suddenly. Then, they breed back to corns and the borrowed looks of the alien species are still in the family tree, but by breeding back to corns, they make them look more like corns (except for the borrowed trait).



So, having said all this, it's possible your corn is a pure one, but I wouldn't buy it because of the head markings and the yellow ground coloration that is virtually identical to that of jungle corns (king snake X corn snake). I'm guessing the belly of your's is also atypical, compared to the checkering we see in most corns.
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