""For instance, you fellas call individuals intergrades without evidence of intergradation.""

And you Frank call intergrades new species without any evidence of them being so.....

""Consider, if this was not so, and your constant intergradation is true, then there would be absolutely no reason for all the different morphs of Getulus. There would only be one dominate color morph, as habitat, would not modify only genetics would be expressed.""

I never stated there was constant intergration. What I said that there was intergration either relict or occuring at the present.
Now...Who are you to tell me I am wrong....Unless you are Relict.....LOL
And you say "morphs" in Getulus...........There are many morphs in many species of Getula....Don't you mean the different subspecies of Getula.

Have you ever thought that Californiae and Getula getula were the only pure species in the US....and everything in between derived from gene flow of each???? I know that is far fetched, but when I look at Californiae and Holbrooki.....ALL the splendida in between appear to be an intergration of the two......

I still think you believe that there are numerous more kingsnake species within the United States.....Is this true?
And....I know you are "suggesting" most of the time, but many believe in intergration and not intergraded species standing alone as a subspecies..........
John Lassiter

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