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gerryg
at Sat Mar 31 04:24:15 2012 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by gerryg ]
When I first started looking around for those snakes, a year ago, year and a half perhaps I finally made contact with someone that seemed to have had them. Just managed to find the e-mail that provided some detail as to their fate, in part it reads...
That "Jim Kane undescribed milk" was an awesome animal. Jim Kane had
produced this many years ago and in the past few years I made an exhaustive
search trying to find them. There was much consternation about what they
really were. They originated from the southern part of the Mexican state
of Nuevo Leon. Some called them just a southern variant of annulata, some
called them dixoni (which they're not), and others called them a naturally
occurring annulata X dixoni intergrade. Jim Kane believed they were truly
a new, different subspecies. I had finally found an older male and then it finally died. Apparently there were problems with
these going into multiple sheds and then dying. The entire animal looked
like it had been lacquered, and the shed skins were really thin compared to
other milks. I was never able to find a female for it.
Couldn't decide from the wording if this individual had the last known male and I didn't pursue it further as it literally seemed to be a dead end.
Gerry
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One more note - gerryg, Sat Mar 31 04:24:15 2012