Hello from Finland. I have a breeding pair of normal black ratsnakes (Pantherophis obsoleta obsoleta) and a single white-sided P.o.o male. The black female is heterotsygous to albinism, and produced so far black babies with the black male.



I have heard very contradictious information about the white-sided, and found no facts about: some say it's a simple color mutation of normal Pantherophis obsoleta obsoleta, and some say it's a cross-breed subspecies mix of Pantherophis obsoleta lindheimeri (leucistic) and Pantherophis obsoleta obsoleta. Didn't find any topics about this, are there? Please help me, which information is true?



IF it is a non-hybrid color variant of plain "pure" black ratsnake, and I can breed my male with the black het for albinism-female (with no worries of creating more ssp-sppmix-hybrids, my biggest concern), is there any possibilities of getting white-sides in the F1-offspring? Is there / where can I find information about black ratsnake color genetics?



Best regards, and thank you very much. Kati, Finland

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• whitesided black ratsnake - jarra, Wed Sep 23 07:22:39 2009
• RE: whitesided black ratsnake - DMong, Wed Sep 23 12:21:12 2009
• whitesided black ratsnake - JYohe, Wed Sep 23 17:48:30 2009
• RE: whitesided black ratsnake - DMong, Wed Sep 23 18:24:08 2009