Beautiful milksnakes, Orlando, especially the one in the first, third, and fourth pictures. The one in the fifth picture isn't too shabby, either, and looks very familiar... you must have bought that from Bill Lamoreaux. Based on red body ring count and head pattern, those look like micropholis to me. Have you ever done any scale counts on them? As I said in my post below, subcaudals seem to set the intergrades apart from either "pure" subspecies, although the rest of their meristics are, as you would expect, intermediate between the two. From your website, it looks like you're primarily a boa guy... is boa taxonomy as much of a mess as milksnake taxonomy?



Nate

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• South American Milks......micropholis?? - lrdj, Sun Jan 24 12:36:50 2010
• RE: South American Milks......micropholis?? - nategodin, Sun Jan 24 17:14:43 2010
• RE: South American Milks......micropholi - lrdj, Mon Jan 25 09:30:26 2010
• RE: South American Milks......micropholis?? - bobassetto, Mon Jan 25 10:53:51 2010
• RE: South American Milks......micropholi - Nathan Wells, Mon Jan 25 11:00:11 2010
• RE: South American Milks......micropholi - lrdj, Tue Jan 26 15:40:02 2010