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chrish
at Wed May 28 23:29:02 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by chrish ]
>>Great find, Chris! I have never seen one so dark! Do different locales produce different colors, or are they pretty jumbled like the platyrhinos?
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>>A.C.
In my experience, young kennerlyi (and nasicus in general) start out darker then lighten up as adults. However, I have two kennerlyi from this area and both have very dark blotches. Further south and east they tend to be lighter, as do snakes from the far western part of the range (S. AZ).
This population probably experiences colder weather than other kennerlyi due to the higher elevations at which they are found. Maybe that explains the dark spots. Or maybe that is another Kiplingesque "Just So" story?
You don't see the sort of variation in nasicus that you do in platirhinos, IME.
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Chris Harrison
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