Many people no longer recognize gloydi. Gloydi normally have a lower blotch count and their blotches tend to be more square than round. They usually are found in area that have more trees (oaks in particular). Pattern seem to be similar to the emory rat vs the corn snake in Texas (to me anyway). Very few people have "gloydi" available and you rarely see wildcaughts. If anyone has photos of some from the far eastern portion of their range, I would love to see some.



According to Dixon, male gloyi have fewer than 32 blotches head to anal plate, nasicus nasicus has 35 or more. This particular wild caught male is from the furthest east portion of the "plains" range in north central Texas. He has the more square blotches and a blotch count of 32.





Females "plains" have more than 40 blotches and "gloydi" have fewer than thirty-seven. This wildcaught female is from the same county as the male above and has 33 or 34 blotches (depends on what you consider a blotch). It also has much more square blotches.





This female has between 37-39





and this female has around 34-35





I would love to see some more photos of wildcaughts from the eastern portion of the nasicus range. According to Dixon, all of these key out to either "gloydi" or somewhere in between the two subspecies, and certainly do not look like most wildcaught "plains" I have seen. You do see this "gloydi" influence in many of the captive westerns due in large part to animals that I produced many years ago that were worked into several large breeders' collections.

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