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tbrock
at Fri Sep 18 22:27:33 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by tbrock ]
>>hey Todd,
>> This is probably a stupid question but why are they called a reverse stripe?
>>Are there normal stripe?
>>Is it because it is more one stripe down the middle as opposed to one on each side like corns?
Hey Jimmy,
Notice how the stripe on Sue's snakes cleaves through the middle of the dorsal blotches? Rather than having a dorsal stripe, it is the absence of pattern, leaving a reverse stripe of the snake's ground color. Totally different from striped guttatus, where the entire pattern is just two stripes. To my knowledge there are no "normal striped" emoryi. I suppose these could just be called Striped emoryi, but then that makes me think of corn morphs.
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research
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