Well,...going by it's visual phenotype alone, I'd have to go along with Phil. It has classic polyzona characteristics, but that's certainly not to say there is no possibility of some other geneflow also being involved in it's lineage.



Phil is also correct when he mentioned that many so-called pure "hondurensis" in the hobby also have other gene-flow from other subspecies in their genetic make-up. This is very easy to undestand since most people have no clue about what sets several Latin American ssp. apart from one another meristic-wise. Also, it is very difficult, to virtually impossible for even the most "well-seasoned" triangulum experts to make accurate identifications on many of these unless they are very good classic examples.



When locality is unknown, and you account for some individual variation, without seeing the entire clutch of siblings and the parents, it then is basically an educated guess as to what some of these snakes actually are in the hobby.



BTW,...are you even sure the other snake you mentioned is 100% hondurensis?. In any case though, Scott Ballard and I both agree with Phil in that it best represents polyzona meristic-wise.





best regards, ~Doug
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