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KevinM
at Tue Nov 17 13:25:47 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by KevinM ]
John, I am pretty sure the first lavender speck was captured in either Chalmette, or Arabi, St. Bernard Parish, LA. Tim Ricks from St. Bernard was heavily into the brooks, speck, and goini morphs 10 plus years ago, and may have been the one to capture the first lavender. If not mistaken, I believe it is a form of hypomelanism. It has been about that many years since I have seen one in person and up close, so I cannot recall what their patterns/belly colors looked like for sure. I think it was a yearling sized snake and was pretty normally speckled like typical South LA specks, maybe some light crossbanding. Of course, this area is no where near the splendida/holbrooki integrade zone. I can't swear by it, but KJUN Snakehaven may have one or two St. Bernard LA bloodline lavender specks in his collection.
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