Here's two specks from adjoining counties and a possible intergrade or just a very wild looking splendida. You judge, all locality but all totally different. Would you buy the "morph" or intergrade? Why or why not? It is locality and it is pure. A Calhoun county, Texas "textbook" super lemon yellow speck female....

A Refugio county, Texas buff colored but more evenly speckled speck....

A "mutt"/possible intergrade or maybe, just maybe a real live bonafide splendida with a locality phenotype from this area...

She doesn't look as good as 1 or 2 but guess what? She was caught in the EXACT same place as the eggs I collected and John and I hatched girl #1 from, only 6 feet away. I have many of these "mutts" as they aren't mutts but the real splendida phenotype of this area or an intergrade which I don't buy. but can't prove as yet. As Frank stated in an above post, there can be many phenotypes, or morphs, within a locality, so to put an exact look on things and call them that isn't completely true, but we must call them something right? So that's where my brand of locality comes in...these are getula from blah, blah, blah county, Texas, or wherever. All I am trying to say is, if I were to put #1 and #3 together or #@ and #3 together, and tell everyone on here I did so, I would more than likely get a bashing for doing it. Know what? Doesn't matter and shouldn't unless YOU bought them from ME and had a problem later on down the line. With my c.b from w.c. animals, comes the only pedigree you need. Come with me and I will show you where your founding stock came from, if you can't, you'll have to take my word for it, as it is in all cases. I am sure that Funky will follow through and properly label his animals for sale, something that I can't say for a lot of people that founded some of our colonies.

1st pic Refugio co. male adult

2nd pic Calhoun co. female adult splendida/possible intergrade

3rd pic Calhoun co. female subadult textbook holbrooki









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