Blotched Kings are an intergrade between the eastern kingsnake and an unclassified Getula subspecies. The unclassified getula subspecies is supposed to be a patternless speckled sort of kingsnake. These would still enter the pet trade as goini though.As it currently stands, goini are still considered to be an intergrade between the Florida king, and the Eastern king, but that is going to change soon.



Outer Banks kings were considered to be the subspecies Stiticeps, but are now considered to be a variant of the eastern kingsnake. You could say you had 2.1 Eastern kings, but hobbyists still draw a distinction between them, where taxonomists don't.



A brooks king is a Floridana. The taxonomic troubles with the rest of the Florida kings is a little opinionated, officially they are recognized as intergrades between the eastern king and the brooks king, but most of the people I know who work with them consider them to be darker versions of Floridana.

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• Florida and Eastern Kingsnakes - Sasheena, Tue Dec 16 14:59:48 2003
• RE: Florida and Eastern Kingsnakes - Keith Hillson, Tue Dec 16 17:36:14 2003
• RE: Florida and Eastern Kingsnakes - Foxturtle, Tue Dec 16 17:41:16 2003
• RE: Florida and Eastern Kingsnakes - RalphSnakeMan, Tue Dec 16 20:41:04 2003
• missed the black king! n/p - sk8r009, Wed Dec 17 21:02:06 2003
• and the speckled king.np - foxturtle, Thu Dec 18 09:11:30 2003
• Actually... - Keith Hillson, Thu Dec 18 13:06:04 2003
• RE: Actually... - thomas davis, Thu Dec 18 23:50:36 2003
• RE: Actually... - Keith Hillson, Fri Dec 19 06:32:47 2003
• Typo above its actually the Splendida Group. - Keith Hillson, Fri Dec 19 06:34:15 2003
• I think they should kick splendida out of the splendida group... - Foxturtle, Sat Dec 20 02:30:00 2003
• RE: I think they should kick splendida out of the splendida group... - Keith Hillson, Sat Dec 20 10:00:06 2003