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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• Where does emoryi stop and slowinskii... - gratefuldead, Thu Jul 24 15:36:02 2008
• RE: Where does emoryi stop and slowinskii... - gratefuldead, Thu Jul 24 18:21:12 2008
• RE: Where does emoryi stop and slowinskii... - BillMcgElaphe, Fri Jul 25 08:49:47 2008
• RE: Where does emoryi stop and slowinskii... - tbrock, Fri Jul 25 20:53:18 2008
• RE: Where does emoryi stop and slowinski - CKing, Sat Jul 26 17:46:43 2008
• RE: Where does emoryi stop and slowinski - gratefuldead, Mon Jul 28 12:08:49 2008
• RE: Where does emoryi stop and slowinski - CKing, Mon Jul 28 17:06:15 2008
• RE: Where does emoryi stop and slowinski - ratsnakehaven, Sun Aug 3 13:13:21 2008
• Didn't post my reply above... - ratsnakehaven, Sun Aug 3 13:16:07 2008