Tony this is a good example of what purists commonly call a generic snake. A generic snake is a) any mixed locality snake of known origins that fall within the range of a particular species or subspecies.
b) any snake of unknown origin that has no known hyridization or intergration and phenotypically appears pure.

These definitions allow people to label pure-looking snakes as generics with the understanding that there is always a possiblity of undetectable historical hybridization. I did not invent these definitions. They were in common usage among all the locality breeders that I know of a long time ago. I believe I was the first person to formally post them but as I said every purist or locality breeder out there pretty much understands that the bar for generics is set a little lower than for locality specifics. No purist or locality breeder I know would 'call out' a phenotypically pure looking snake as long as the person having it made it clear that it was a generic. It is only when funky looking stuff gets posted that purity is questioned in generic snakes.

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• Nice Knob - viborero, Tue Dec 29 10:56:18 2009
• RE: Nice Knob - DMong, Tue Dec 29 11:50:59 2009
• RE: Nice Knob - viborero, Tue Dec 29 13:59:35 2009
• RE: Nice Knob - DMong, Tue Dec 29 16:29:17 2009
• RE: Nice Knob - Tony D, Tue Dec 29 14:09:46 2009
• Here we go... - viborero, Tue Dec 29 14:40:13 2009
• RE: Here we go... - Tony D, Tue Dec 29 15:14:53 2009
• I would say that one is good....... - Rich G.cascabel, Wed Dec 30 09:18:18 2009
• Thanks Rich! - viborero, Wed Dec 30 12:35:28 2009
• RE: Nice Knob - DMong, Tue Dec 29 16:43:37 2009
• ...here we go 'round the mulberry bush.. - JKruse, Tue Dec 29 21:38:30 2009
• RE: ...here we go 'round the mulberry bush.. - Tony D, Tue Dec 29 22:05:49 2009
• moot point............. - JKruse, Tue Dec 29 22:51:01 2009
• RE: moot point............. - viborero, Wed Dec 30 07:21:29 2009
• RE: moot point............. - Tony D, Wed Dec 30 09:27:00 2009
• RE: moot point............. - thomas davis, Wed Dec 30 11:35:17 2009
• RE: Nice Knob - Aaron, Wed Dec 30 22:32:47 2009
• RE: Nice Knob - Tony D, Thu Dec 31 16:47:58 2009
• RE: Nice Knob - antelope, Thu Dec 31 20:15:08 2009
• RE: Nice Knob - jonellopez, Tue Dec 29 12:04:16 2009
• RE: Nice Knob - viborero, Tue Dec 29 14:00:49 2009
• RE: Nice Knob - antelope, Tue Dec 29 12:41:22 2009
• RE: Nice Knob - viborero, Tue Dec 29 14:03:04 2009
• RE: Nice Knob - snake_bit, Tue Dec 29 22:39:25 2009
• RE: Nice Knob - viborero, Wed Dec 30 07:09:43 2009