That I collected myself and there are variations in EVERY locale. Pattern including banding,ventral pattern, coloration, head shape and habits as well as the infamous "collar" which is SOMETIMES complete and sometimes broken and SOMETIMES abberant.I have a wc Hyde Co and Chesapeake VA that have broken/abberant collars. Head spotting pops out from time to time and in captive bred lines this trait pops up routinely and becomes more common. I have seen captive lines produce MANY pattern anomolies that you might not see otherwise.

Hard work and many years go into some of these animals and different lines are......well......different! "Temporalis are variable and I've seen examples from many locales that are "different"from the norm.

Northern examples(ie NJ to northern VA)vary greatly from the southern examples from se VA and ne NC by having heavy triangulum influence versus heavy elapsoides influence in the south.



-stretchx

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