"but certainly, somewhere out there among the hobbiest there must be some pure hondurans still to be found"





There are "one or two" known bloodlines that were never outcrossed with any morphs that the purity has been questionable on, and I know of only ONE person that has two lines of 100% true locality hondurensis in this hobby from central and northwestern Nicaragua.



The lineage of most ANY mainstream hobby Hondo's have been varying percentages of mixed geneflow from abnorma, polyzona, stuarti, and even quite possibly others too over the course of several decades. It is just the way it is, and they are what they are.



I explain this in much more detail on my website under the heading ......."About Honduran Milksnakes in the Hobby" here on the main home page. I placed a link below that explains all about them.



The reasons for this are extremely mult-faceted, and has been this way ever since their introduction into the hobby decades ago. Some are of course far more genuinely pure than others, but nobody can say at this point that they are 100% hondurensis, because there is simply no way possible this could be, and for a multitude of reasons.



On another side note, hondurensis does not intergrade with andesiana either, as andesiana is much further to the southeast in the much higher elevations of the Andes Mountains(up to 9,000 feet or more) in Colombia.





best regards, ~Doug
Hondos in the hobby


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