Hi Todd, please see my last post to Cole. I am NOT disagreeing that the collection site information is usefull, but EACH location/county/city/hammock of grass they were collected from does not justify calling an animal "Locality X" to me. You bring forth another case example that shows this with the annulatas. Now, I would say those phenotypically same animals within that area amongst the counties you collected them in could be considered "Locality X" animals because they all express the same traits representative of the same type habitat and gene flow capability. I quess I am not going to buy an animal labled as "Locality X" thinking its better or more unique than someone selling the same animal as "from S. Texas stock", if they are basically the same animals, same genes, from the same habitat. Putting that specific "Locality X" moniker on them doesnt make them more special in my eyes.

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