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rosspadilla
at Thu Oct 27 10:24:32 2011 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by rosspadilla ]
From what I remember reading, its the inner scale lightening that distinguishes a meansi from a "goini". Because of that, you can only go by specimens that are over 3 feet or so. So in other words, a blotched kingsnake with more than 50% (or something like that) of its scale (in the dark bands) being light, is a meansi. Then the striped and patternless forms are also considered meansi. The problem with all that is there have been striped meansi found well into the so called intergrade zone. And I know a guy on FHF, who found a female blotched king, in the intergrade zone, that looked more getala than anything. She was gravid, he hatched the eggs, and got some looking mostly like a getula, others were blotched, and one was identical to a striped meansi. He even posted all the pictures. Pretty interesting stuff.
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RE: Goini king sanke and moasic - rosspadilla, Thu Oct 27 10:24:32 2011