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Hypo?

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Posted by: tspuckler at Sat Apr 21 07:33:02 2012   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by tspuckler ]  
   

I've seen the "Is this wild Pituophis snake I saw in the field a hypo?" question asked a lot and now I reckon I'm asking it. I was in NorCal earlier in the month finding a few of last year's Pacific Gopher Snakes, most of which looked like this:





But on the last day I found this one:





It certainly lacks black pigment, but do you think that it's a "genetic" (simple recessive trait) hypo or just a natural variation in the amount of black?



Tim
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