I've been thinking about the fact that our commonly captive bred species may be so interbred that we may not even really know what we're breeding any more - and if we DO know, its our little secret 
So I was thinking we might want to do a couple things. First would be to run some genetics (dna assays) of different morphs, and compare them against locality subspecies. For example, how do goini, brooksi, etc compare (on the DNA level) to museum collection specimens from 50 years ago.
This would allow us to certify lineages. And this isn't too expensive anymore.
The second suggestion is that we adopt the use of new scientific names for the commonly captive bred species. Since we really don't know how badly polluted the gene pool of commonly bred species (especially morphs) we should consider the adoption of examples, like these:
Pantherophis guttata domesticus
Lampropeltis getulus domesticus
Pituophis catenifer domesticus
and for ANY hybrid:
Serpent domesticus domesticus
I'm interested in feedback - and I'll post this in the corn and king snake forum too to see what they think over there.
Joe
