The Elaphe species was changed to Pantherophis. With this change came the change to the ssp names as well. i.e. Elaphe Obsoleta Obsoleta is now Pantherophis Obsoletus obsoletus.

However, most people are reluctant to use the new change, just hard to get used to I guess, myself included.
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1.0 Corn snake "Warpath" (KY locale)
1.0 Black rat snake "Havok" (KY locale)
1.1 Black rat snakes "Punisher and Mystique" (MO locale)
1.0 Eastern Yellow Belly racer "Nightcrawler" (MO locale)
1.0 Albino Black rat snake "Malakai" (Dwight Good stock)
1.0 Everglades rat snake "Deadpool" (Dwight Good stock)
0.1 Yellow rat snake "Rogue" (Dwight Good stock)
1.1 California king snake "Bandit and Moonstar" (Coastal phase)
1.0 Prairie king snake "Bishop" (KY locale)
0.1 Black king snake "Domino" (KY locale)
0.0.1 Eastern Milk snake "Cable" (KY locale)
0.0.1 Eastern/Red milk intergrade "Omega Red" (KY locale)

Good luck and Happy Herping
Brian

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• Scientific name for corns? - qime, Tue Sep 7 10:32:50 2004
• RE: Scientific name for corns? - emkovar, Tue Sep 7 11:18:13 2004
• RE: Scientific name for corns? - Hotshot, Tue Sep 7 11:38:43 2004
• I just had to say HotShot I love your herp's names!! ^-^ np - Langi, Tue Sep 7 22:05:39 2004
• Cornicrapenis Ellepukesnot. - Gargoyle420, Tue Sep 7 19:19:01 2004