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anuraanman
at Wed Nov 11 13:02:32 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by anuraanman ]
Just in case you are interested, you are misusing the term "family".
Indigos belong to the genus, Drymarchon. Kings and Milksnakes belong to the genus Lampropeltis. Racers are in the genus Coluber. All of the above snakes, including most other snakes in North America, are in the exact same family, "Colubridae"
In North America we have 5 native families of snakes: Colubrids, coral snakes, pit vipers/rattlesnakes, slender blind snakes, and boas/pythons. I believe there has been some talk about splitting colubridae up into smaller families but I think it is more likely that the use of subfamilies will be adopted instead.
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- snake species that can't unhinge their - poison1981, Sun Nov 8 13:50:43 2009
- RE: snake species that can't unhinge their - LarryF, Sun Nov 8 23:33:08 2009
- tossing smooth greens into the mix - anuraanman, Mon Nov 9 11:23:59 2009
- RE: tossing smooth greens into the mix - DMong, Mon Nov 9 13:26:22 2009
- RE: tossing smooth greens into the mix - anuraanman, Mon Nov 9 13:30:16 2009
- RE: tossing smooth greens into the mix - DMong, Mon Nov 9 15:44:25 2009
- oh! - DMong, Mon Nov 9 15:54:45 2009
- RE: oh! - poison1981, Tue Nov 10 03:12:40 2009
- RE: oh! - DMong, Tue Nov 10 11:43:44 2009
- RE: oh! - mfoux, Tue Nov 10 13:58:45 2009
- RE: oh! - DMong, Tue Nov 10 16:30:43 2009
- RE: oh! - mfoux, Wed Nov 11 08:38:58 2009
- Cool! - DMong, Wed Nov 11 10:33:51 2009
- RE: oh! - poison1981, Tue Nov 10 23:34:41 2009
 family vs genus - anuraanman, Wed Nov 11 13:02:32 2009
- Erycines... - chrish, Tue Nov 10 23:44:08 2009
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