I see you are understanding all this rather well, and that is great to know. The reasons you mentioned are exactly why.



This is not to say there aren't any pure hondurensis around, because there are, it's just that alot of Honduran's in the hobby also have diluted geneology of varying degrees.



For example, if your polyzona phenotype was bred to a "textbook perfect" hondurensis, then THOSE babies were also bred to a more hondurensis phenotype animal, after a few generations they become MUCH more Honduran like and impossible to distinguish as anything other than hondurensis, even though they are NOT really pure hondurensis anymore.



When you have phenotypic consistency in clutches, then you can be pretty certain as to exactly what things are.



This whole thing can be rather cloudy, and very confusing at times too. I know, because I have scratched my head MANY times regarding this issue..LOL!



Another HUGE problem is when books use horrible examples to describe a certain subspecies, and the photo looks NOTHING like what they are describing!..haha!



In any case, don't feel like you are the only one that's confused regarding this,.....there are MANY!



polyzona, stuarti and abnorma are the key players to this hondurensis confusion we see today.





best regards, ~Doug
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