Nice photos, snkes, and comparison, Matt.



Those tip-o-Texas meahllies have even buggier eyes than other localities (of meahllmorum), I think. Very interesting snakes - but even though most taxonomists would consider those two locaities to be simply "emoryi", I am of the mindset that still considers them subspecies of guttatus. Furthermore, I would suspect that our south Texas meahllmorum are probably more closely related to east Texas guttatus slowinskii than they are to intermontanus.
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-Toby Brock

Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

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• emoryi locale comparisons - mattkau, Mon Nov 2 10:15:57 2009
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