Okay, then if it wasn't captured in the southern Arizona area where the Desert king, Mexican Black king, and California king are known to naturally converge and intergrade, someone crossed any of those three combinations to produce that snake. The percentages of any two or three of their lineages in that animal can vary drastically, and no two snakes from that clutch necessarily have to look real similar either. There can be individuals that look much more like one ore the other parents.



In other words, it is impossible to say exactly what prcentage of two or three subspecies is in that snake's genetic makeup.



I have seen snake's from the Nogales, area just north of the Mexican boarder that look virtually identical to that one, and again, it is right around where all three of these subspecies converge. Some can look like one type, another can look like another, and others can look very intermediate.







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