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DMong
at Thu Feb 4 20:14:25 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DMong ]
That's right, and Chris C. was admittedly known by several to be very much the "basement hybridizer/crosser".
Let me just say this and leave it at that,.......all the hypo "campbelli" I have ever seen, show EXACTLY intermediate phenotype between hondurensis and campbelli.
None I have ever seen make me think,...HOLY SMOKES!, now THAT is 100% genuine campbelli!. They do however make me think.....hmm, I see BOTH traits here, and it looks totally intermediate meristic-wise in every detail to me.
The snakes certainly don't need to have awesome "sockheads", or super extra-wide inner white triad rings for me to be convinced either, just a simple far forward temporal band, lightly mottled snout such as this one. This is a typical campbelli phenotype, not extreme at all in either direction. I simply cannot get over the fact that they display a very set-back, thinner temporal band which is much more indicative of hondurensis, or even MORE accurately put, "Hobby Hondurans" 
~Doug
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RE: Does anyone have definitive proof - DMong, Thu Feb 4 20:14:25 2010