Well, I was extremely doubtful about these before, but I have looked into these a little more a while back. Although they "look" very different than most would be used to seeing(me included), the meristical characteristics do seem to concur with most other forms of sinaloae. Cosala, Mexico locality sinaloans have a "trademark" funny colored snout(reds/whites)and are absolutely true Sinaloans known for these strange snouts, and also average a somewhat lower RBR(red body rings) count.



The snout on the one you pictured could very well be just a sort of strange looking one even for the Cosala Sinaloans, but I have seen many Casala animals with their snouts being extremely variable, in freckled pattern, as well as the coloring. Many times their snouts can even have two or three colors involved.



The triads(rings of three) and their spacing also look proportionate as well. I can't see an "overall" view, so I don't know exactly what it's total RBR count is to the cloaca, but Sinaloan's typically have 10-16 red body rings.



I have seen several different lines of Sinaloan on a particular website, including Lemke-lines(Cosalas), Sanders-line (Cosalas, and several other types, and they are the "real deal" Sinaloans. This same site has some apricots on it as well, and they look identicle to the ones you have.



From what I can see, these are probably genuine, and if they aren't, someone did a good job of back-breeding them to revert back to more of a Sinaloan lineage.



Here is a pic of a few I saw.





~Doug

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