>>Actually, the UT and CO rats aren't classified as a separate subspecies anymore. They are just Pantherophis (Elaphe) guttatus emoryi. Also, it's possible that emoryi can look like "intermontana" in other parts of its range, especially in other western parts of its range, as they tend to be shorter and stockier and vary in color/pattern.

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These emoryi come from a New Mexico herper, from many years ago and before the new laws, and I'm not sure of their origin. They look like the "intermontana" locality snakes, but they also could have come from eastern CO, N.M., or w. TX, imo. They tend to be short and stocky as adults and lean towards a silverish color, with reduced patterning, so I call them, silver emoryi. I'd like to see a nice, silver colored emoryi someday. Here's a shot of the male which has a somewhat brownish/gray ground color...



The female is much more robust and closer to the silver color I'm looking for...



Although I've never bred them before, I'm thinking of breeding them to my silver Miami corns to get a silver cross, as well as to each other, eventually.



These Miami phase corns are just a color phase and not a true locality, but they tend towards a much shorter corn snake also, like the true Miami locality. They are also a thin snake with some Keys ratsnake blood in them. I'd like to see what a cross bt the two subspecies would look like. The Miamis are also hypo or het. hypo and the cross would be rootbeers (het hypo). Here's one of my silver Miami corns...





I'd like to see others try to come up with an Emory's ratsnake that has some unique coloration and maybe size differences also. Good luck.



TC

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