Actually I'm just doing my thing in the area that most interests me, throwing in my opinion occasionally.



I think Vaughan, Dixon, and Thomas will do a followup paper involving the various corn snake subspecies, eventually. Sometimes it takes a little while. Meanwhile, I just sit back and look at other peoples' opinions, some of whom are very knowledgeable. I do have some pretty strong opinions myself sometimes too, like with "slowinskii", wanting it to be P. g. slowinskii. I think slowinskii is closer to g. guttata than to g. emoryi.



I agree, the accepted way to call them is Pantherophis guttata ssps, right now. Except Slowinski's Corn is P. slowinskii. Burbrink's changes within obsoleta and guttata are not widely accepted and I don't expect will stand the test of time. I for one don't care to use them. Also, what goes on at CNAH is not the last word either. What gets accepted and used in the general scientific community is most important.



In the future, it's possible we could see two species, emoryi and guttata, in the Corn Snake Complex, which I wouldn't mind, unless it could be shown that emoryi and guttata are truly intergrading. If that were the case, then the complex might look like: P. e. emoryi, P. e. meahllmorum, P. e. intermontana, P. g. guttata, and P. g. slowinskii. Amateurs just have to have a lot of patience...LOL.

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