I agree Jeff. With the advancement of amateur herpetology I believe we are seing a HUGE influx in data regarding the taxonomy and phenotypical classification of all the "favorite" genera and species within. I personally believe the shift from common names to locality based names will create better mental images regarding the phenotype being referred to during communication. As you stated, these names were given to the snakes by us and the snakes could give a rats butt less what they are being called by us LOL!



I think the L.alterna fans have it right. Regardless of the myriad of phenotypes and forms of L.alterna floating around out there, they are still all L.alterna without any subspeciation. However, preservation of locality in breeding programs is the key to preserving the unique phenotypes and forms from those areas in captivity as best as possible.

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• Western milk snake classifications - snakeadventures, Sat Dec 11 12:46:38 2010
• RE: Western milk snake classifications - Sunherp, Sun Dec 12 11:14:34 2010
• Well said Cole - jeff schofield, Sun Dec 12 11:48:20 2010
• RE: Well said Cole - KevinM, Mon Dec 13 14:56:20 2010
• RE: Well said Cole - Jeff Schofield, Mon Dec 13 15:26:50 2010
• No Argument Here - KevinM, Mon Dec 13 16:00:07 2010
• I wasnt lookin lol - Jeff Schofield, Mon Dec 13 21:56:09 2010
• Nailed that one!! - KevinM, Tue Dec 14 09:19:52 2010
• RE: Well said Cole - LamproShed, Tue Dec 14 10:42:46 2010
• LMAO - Jeff Schofield, Tue Dec 14 11:25:54 2010
• RE: LMAO - LamproShed, Tue Dec 14 22:45:28 2010
• We fart in your general direction! np - Jeff Schofield, Tue Dec 14 22:48:39 2010
• RE: We fart in your general direction! np - LamproShed, Wed Dec 15 13:46:14 2010
• Let me add this to the forum--3 posts - Jeff Schofield, Wed Dec 15 14:18:44 2010
• RE: Western milk snake classifications - PWalreadytaken, Sun Dec 12 14:44:11 2010
• RE: Western milk snake classifications - terryd, Sun Dec 12 12:51:54 2010
• thats a smoker-np - snake_bit, Sun Dec 12 22:51:05 2010
• RE: Western milk snake classifications - snakeadventures, Mon Dec 13 09:26:31 2010