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Sunherp
at Wed Jul 7 11:32:17 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Sunherp ]
AD,
Some of the "big" dealers apparently aren't as familiar with the animals themselves as they maybe ought to be... It's interesting. Perhaps they were just caught up in the fervor?
That animal, to my eye, is pretty obviously a Thamnophis, even if it was patternless and in black and white. The supraocular ridge (or "brow" over the eye, enlarged and graduated supralabials, distinctly (and heavily) keeled and elongated dorsal scales, etc. are screaming, "THAMNOPHIS!!!" Ha ha ha! Anyway, there is no way in Hell that anyone with more than a little experience could mistake that thing for anything in the tribe Lampropeltini. It's a Natricine through and through.
-Cole
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