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Sunherp
at Wed Oct 28 10:24:57 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Sunherp ]
Dougster,
That's supposed to be a diagnostic feature of multistrata, but it's far from consistant within the subspecies, a given locality, or even a clutch! I've got a few foothills gentilis and numerous multistrata from throughout the range that have the ventrolateral blotches, but they seem most common in the animals from central/north-central Nebraska. It's interesting that some of the pales from here in MT (and elsewhere) can key out to exceptionally nice-looking gentilis. Fascinating topic, Doug. Maybe we should start a thread on the subject and illustrate it with photos as examples?
-Cole
L. t. multistrata - Cherry Co., NE Photo Credit: Jose Ole (why is it that the best photos of my animals were taken by other people?!)
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