At this point with certain species, especially typical hobby hondurans, the hair splitting is academic in the hobby IMO. When these animals were first being imported, locality information was probably very well documented. However, I can conjecture that as the "business" end of herpetoculture grew, importers were probably grabbing anything they could get their hands on knowing it would sell, and labeling it as best they could based on where imported from. I have little confidence the local collectors supplying the export/import trade were and are taxonomically identifying the animals they capture. Especially as the request for volume increased. The changing climate of export regs in the various Latin American countries over the years has probably brought confusion to the game as well. If country A no longer exports, than a substitute must be found to satisfy the industry. Simple supply and demand in the business world IMO. Throw in a dash of unethical breeding practices to meet supply and demand, and all this probably adds up to what we see represented in the hobby today as a "honduran" milksnake. Don't know why I went down this path. I guess I am just having rambling thoughts about the subject at hand LOL!!

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