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RE: Pacific Gophers: Does she look gravid?

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Posted by: Rick Staub at Wed Apr 27 18:15:20 2011   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Rick Staub ]  
   

Can you tell me why they have the color of pacific gopher snakes but the high-blotch and busy pattern of san diegos?!?!?

Pacifics near the SF Bay Area tend to have some high blotch counts. Here is an albino I found near Richmond. Others I found near her had even more blotches.


And one found near Fairfield


The stripers can similarly be variable in pattern. Here is a nice striped het amel.


Annectans tend to have more cream and yellow in them. I certainly would not try to differentiate them from Pacifics just based on number of blotches.
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Rick Staub

   

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