>>Bringing up Burbrink, now that's a can of worms, ahaha. Don't agree, don't agree! I think he has real problems, especially trying to justify "slowinskii" as a full species. I think most of us look at it as a subspecies of corn snake. I do believe slowinskii intergrades with meahllmorum along the Gulf Coast, however, allowing some genes to pass back and forth from G P rats to corns, etc.

I need more time to digest that paper, not that I will ever understand that mtDNA work! However, I do see one huge glaring omission. Not a single sampled specimen from Mexico! How could he expect that work speak for the specimens he has included in Mexico when he didn't include them in the samples??

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