This always appears to be an "exciting" topic on the forums LOL!!



I quess my concept of locality has more to do with geographic isolation than location. If the animals are from different "localities" that are in communication with each other and it is feasible and likely for the animals to migrate to each other, than I can't see how their "locality" designation could hold up IMO. To set a locality at a County level would be hard to hold up as well. What about identical looking animals found adjacent on either side of a County line in similar habitat? Or even adjacent to one another right across a State line in similar habitat? Then there is the situation of finding non-identical animals in the same county, maybe even with a few miles or less of each other, but in differing habitat. I feel it is the isolation factor that influences population differences and expressions in phenotypes that spurs most herpers concept of locality, not the arbitrary lines on a map.

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