I don't know where PV is, but I assume it's south and should be out of the range of errebennus, but that sure looks like a TXN to me..

PV is on the southwest (Pacific) coast of Mexico. It is completely the wrong side of the continent for erebennus, which is restricted to the lowlands of the gulf coast. The closest that erebennus and rubidus would come together would be near the isthmus of Tehuantepec (hundreds of miles to the east), but there you would see more melanurus influence (and that area is actually the proposed range of orizabensis).

This snake may have some melanurus influence as I don't know where the two subspecies intergrade.

Whatever the subspecies, it was the prettiest indigo I have ever found!


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Chris Harrison

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• more DOR indigo pics (rubidus) from Mexico.... - chrish, Wed Jan 5 00:10:45 2005
• RE: more DOR indigo pics (rubidus) from Mexico.... - steve fuller, Wed Jan 5 06:11:24 2005
• RE: more DOR indigo pics (rubidus) from Mexico.... - chrish, Wed Jan 5 11:56:22 2005
• RE: more DOR indigo pics (rubidus) from Mexico.... - epidemic, Wed Jan 5 13:58:32 2005
• I'm not so sure, Chris - dryguy, Wed Jan 5 16:25:58 2005
• Also, the "red-tail" - dryguy, Wed Jan 5 16:30:21 2005
• RE: I'm not so sure, Chris - chrish, Wed Jan 5 23:23:26 2005
• RE: I'm not so sure, Chris - dryguy, Wed Jan 5 23:42:13 2005
• dryguy... - DeanAlessandrini, Thu Jan 6 13:48:42 2005
• RE: dryguy... - epidemic, Thu Jan 6 15:27:20 2005
• What does rubidus mean? - tvandeventer, Thu Jan 6 18:44:59 2005
• Can't even spell my own name... - tvandeventer, Thu Jan 6 18:47:50 2005
• RE: What does rubidus mean? - oldherper, Thu Jan 6 19:39:43 2005
• RE: What does rubidus mean? - epidemic, Fri Jan 7 16:52:12 2005
• A couple of other pics of the snake.... - chrish, Thu Jan 6 22:23:16 2005
• I stand by my.. - dryguy, Fri Jan 7 01:07:14 2005
• CAUTION - I'm on my soapbox! - chrish, Fri Jan 7 11:25:45 2005