Well fellah's, I don't know what to tell ya' other thanthe literature says both subs occur in the area where I found these snakes, and the range map clearly shows Calhoun co. to fall into the integration zone, and the big female I caught doesn't have a speck on every scale, she has a checkered belly, and I don't care anymore. She was an awesome snake, I think these hatchlings will be just like her and I hope to make some. As to what they really are, I was calling them deckled kingsor splesert kings! I think this shows some kind of mixing of genetic material over a broad range. A Naturalists Guide: Aransas byWayne and Martha McAlister relies on Tenent, Conant, Dixon, and Raun for the claim that both species are found here, albeit in slightly different habitats of the same area. Joe, aren't you calling the snakes you photoed splendidas and holbrooki? I can see a little of both in all, some more of one than another, some less of one than another. Bexar county is supposed to have more kinds of snakes than any other county in Texas, so why is it that with both species in the county, no intergradation? How could that be? They recognize and don't interbreed? AWWW, they are all one snake, kingsnake!

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