If you look at the head, there is way too much yellow to be a splendida. Also the belly is yellow with dark checks. Spendida normaly have solid color bellies and the head is mainly black and has clearly distinct separation between it and the bodies pattern(except intergrades...see below).

Splendida from the intergrade zone with holbrooki ( the speckled) do have some of these features-but there is usually intrusion of yellow in the black "saddles". They also have black checked veneers. At first glance I leaned towards that intergrade. But the pattern is more in keeping with an intergrade between a Florida x Eastern Chain king.

Also this (to my knowlege) was caught in Florida, which would (if correct)suggest L.g.f.

Frank
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• help identifying? - tragic, Mon Mar 29 11:48:43 2004
• RE: help identifying? - 4everherpn, Mon Mar 29 19:14:59 2004
• RE: help identifying? - rearfang, Mon Mar 29 19:28:39 2004
• That is a Desert Kingsnake (L. g. splendida). /np - chrish, Tue Mar 30 16:45:33 2004
• How do you know it's a desert king and not another getula [NP] - CamHanna, Wed Mar 31 11:27:35 2004
• RE: That is not a splendida Chris - rearfang, Wed Mar 31 14:41:12 2004