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Okay, it's not a snake I found in the yard or anything, but I was looking over the Wild Adventures Theme Park website since they were here for a studio interview last week. They have a nice list of all the animals at their park. One page shows an Eastern Kingsnake. The picture at the bottom of that page looks WAY too much like Eddie. I just want to know if they're incorrect and they're actually showing a Florida King, or if it's possibly an Eastern/Florida cross, or what.

Thanks.

Here's the link:

Eastern?

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Holly

0.1 Lavender California Kingsnake (Lizzie Borden) (missing )
1.0 Florida Kingsnake (Eddie Gein)
0.0.2 Cornsnakes (Lyle & Erik Menendez)
1.0 Bearded Dragon (Charley Manson)
1.0 Orange Marmalade Cat (Oliver)
1.0 Black Cat (Shadowfax)
1.0 Egyptian Arabian (Bagan) (Deceased )
1.0 Tennessee Walking Horse (Durango)

2.0 Toddlers (Justice & Trevor)

That's a typical "florida" king from the central peninsular part of Florida.

Florida Kings intergrade with eastern kings over a large part of the Florida peninsula. True L.g. floridana kings are generally (unfortunately) called "brooksi" in the hobby since that was a name that was incorrectly applied to them for several decades.

Your king is probably one of the peninsular floridana x getula intergrades if it looks like the one in the bottom photo of your link.
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas