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Posted by: batrachos at Mon Jun 9 22:35:09 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by batrachos ] Heh, this has been a hot topic for a while. It stems from a paper published a few years ago by Frank Burbrink, in which he found that the traditional color-based subspecies of ratsnakes did not line up with molecular phylogeny; he threw out the old subspecies and created three new species: the eastern ratsnake (Elaphe alleghaniensis) east of the Appalachian Divide and the Apalachicola valley, including yellow and black snakes; the central ratsnake (Elaphe spiloides) between the Appalachians and the Mississippi, including grey and black snakes; and the western ratsnake (Elaphe obsoleta) west of the Mississippi, including grey and black snakes. | ||
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