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tgcorley
at Sun Sep 6 09:14:41 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by tgcorley ]
John,
I like leonis just a hair more than msp. But a brightly colored msp beats a duller, faded leonis any day.
I would classify the animal in my last post as an intermediate, but closer to the leonis end of the spectrum. My own notion is that at the leonis end of the spectrum, thayeri are pin banded animals with just hints of red. Also, the bands are thinner laterally that they are on the dorsum. At the msp end of the spectrum the bands are about the same width or broader than the ground color and the black lining runs more vertically down the sides.
Perhaps this issue of what constitutes an intermediate would make a good thread. People could post pictures of what they think are intermediates, and we all could get to see lots of pictures of thayeri? How could that be bad?
Tom
The animal below is my most clear example of what I'd call an msp.
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RE: Question about variability - tgcorley, Sun Sep 6 09:14:41 2009