Well, I see that his other stuff seems to look good and genuine. As you and other's already know, it is always possible to produce strange aberrant bloolines now and then in all sorts of species/subspecies. From what I can see in the tiny photo there, at least the beginning head/neck portion that is far more normal than the rest does seem to key-out as nelsoni, the temporal band, distance to the first set of triads from the head, the way the first black ring behind the head flairs out dorsally very abruptly all "seem" to look okay to me. It could very well be a hyper-melanistc line of nelsoni, but who really knows. The only thing I see that I don't like is that many of the light inner triad rings flair-out big-time ventro-laterally at the bottom, and that certainly is not a nelsoni characteristic whatsoever. In sinaloae and nelsoni they are typically very straight and narrow, but this could be caused by the aberrancy itself too I guess.

It would certainly be nice to see some of the other relatives that these snakes originated from though.



cheers, ~Doug
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