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Posted by: John Fraser at Mon May 28 13:20:21 2012 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by John Fraser ] Thanks for asking the question about the Texas gentilis. Of the the 4 different subspecies of milksnakes that occur in Texas, gentilis is indeed the hardest of all to come by. I say this because I have known a number of TX & Non-TX collectors that have found amaura, annulata & celaenops typically over the years, when the weather & ground moisture are favorable for the milks to be at the surface or moving. I have known of intergrades of gentilis to be found to the N & NW of Abilene. True gentilis from TX are from quite arid, isolated counties in the Eastern panhandle of the state. I have driven thru some of those areas in early spring & saw favorable habitat & even checked some accessable locales, finding ringneck snakes & some lizards, much like the gentilis habitat I have found them in in KS. I really think moisture & weather rule whether they are found & it may be a very small window in the spring to be able to find them there in those areas. I think because of the well-known ease of finding gentilis in Central & Western KS, people or should I say the milkheads, typically would go to the easiest place to find them, and TX, where true gentilis occur, is a tough, un-predictable place to go & find them with ease. Other than the gentilis posted in this thread, I personally havent seen anything but intergrades ever found or photoed from TX, yet we know they exist there. | ||
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