I once heard a well known breeder talk about how slowinskii are nothing but emoryi and how the race is invalid. I don't know whether or not slowinskii is a valid race because I'm not a rat snake phylogeographer. However I disagreed with his outright synonomy of the two. Having only found one wild slowinskii, I can't say that I've seen a reliable cross section of the animal...but I do feel comfortable in stating that the habitat of emoryi and slowinskii is very different. It is so different that I have a hard time relegating slowinskii to a variation of emoryi. Any thoughts?

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