Nate,

Thanks for the comments. I did acquired Bill's holdbacks last year.

This is what I got from two of micropholis....

RBR: 17

Dorsal scale rows: 21

Subcaudals: 44



I do have a big collection of locality boas (most of them with verifiable data) but I do also have an interest in Central America and South America milksnake. It is always nice to find herpetoculturist with the same interest......Take care



Orlando







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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