shows me another real sampling problem...

He has a total of 1 (!) snake from east Texas and that is from Angelina county. And the closest emoryi he sampled were from Medina and McMullen counties. And of his small sample (3 snakes) of SoTex emoryi, one of them falls out with the guttata group.

Clearly a larger sample from central/eastern Texas would add a little more credibility to the specific distinction of slowinskii and emoryi. (I'm not saying I don't believe it exists, just that this paper doesn't seem to present compelling evidence based on my 2 minute perusal. To be fair I probably should actually READ the paper!).

I am also unconvinced as to the size of that disjunction in the range in east central Texas.

And what happens down on the central TX coast near Matagorda/Port Aransas? There is an obvious contact zone. Do they hybridize there? Hmmm,....no data.

He could have ground up this big monster "slowinskii" from Grimes county, I wouldn't have missed this psychotic terror for a second,



although he did make a decent sperm donor -

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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, TX

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