I have a friend who has lived in the extreme corner of notheastern S. Carolina for many years in Conway, S.C. This is basically the northernmost coastal range for the Yellow Rat, and the most southeasterly coastal range for the Black rat as well. He told me just the other day that he has not seen a pure looking phenotype of either Yellow or Black in over 20 years there, but he has seen and captured MANY of the "greenish" intergrade ratsnakes personally however. That seems to be a true intergrade zone for the so-called "greenish" ratsnakes.

Here is a photo he has posted before of the general "greenish" rat phenotype from that area.


~Doug



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