Great examples of this are the Corn Snakes and Bull Snakes, Texas bulls tend to be lighter browns yet as you go north, the have darker browns, increased yellows till you get into Indiana and Ill, where they get a lot of black blotching- the Kanakee local is a prime example, and then they start to show more browns again as you get up in to Canada. The p. emoryi and the fox snakes show similar coloration to bulls along with the glossy snakes, which could also be due to their habitats placing demands on evolution to produce animals that have better camouflage for the area, the prairie rattlesnakes also look similar in coloration to the other colubrids that share their habitats. However, I might just have opened a whole can of worms, but this idea of coloration in conjunction to habitat has long been on my mind.
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1.1 Newton County Indiana Bulls
1.0 Texas Redish Bull
0.1 Kansas Yellow Bull
2.2 Red X Yellow Bull
1.0 Medicine Hat Alberta Canada Bull
1.2 Ball Pythons
1.2 Coastal Chocolate Cal Kings
1.0 Banded Desert Cal King
0.1 Gray Banded King
0.1 Jasper County SC Corn
1.2 Henderson County NC Black Rats
0.1 South Carolina Northern Pine

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• My Coloration Theory, Comments? - Ameron, Fri Oct 17 12:29:46 2008
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• Ah, Locale-specifc more of a factor - Ameron, Sat Oct 18 20:56:35 2008
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