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DMong
at Thu Feb 17 17:55:25 2011 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DMong ]
"You should be aware, though, that the subspecies infralabialis has been sunk into nominate pyromelana (L. p. pyromelana) because it cannot be reliable distinguished from it morphologically or genetically"
I always thought the 9 infralabials justified them being distinct. Can you elaborate further on this?? Have there been populations of them where there were 10 infralabials or something?, or others that had 9 to account for this change?
thanks!
~Doug ----- "a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing" 
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