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havn't seen meahlly pics in a while.....
wisema2297
Aug 13, 2008 03:32 PM
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wisema2297
Aug 13, 2008 03:39 PM
The top pics have a little flash overexposure but the look is far off. The last pic is of a wild caught female that has a date lined up with a striped creamsickle so that the offspring will have strong wc genes along with being het for striped cream. I think it will be interesting to see if the look of striped creams with what should be a little more than 50% emoryi blood will look like compared to those out there now that are more removed from the emoryi influence.
tbrock
Aug 13, 2008 11:03 PM
Lookin' good, Ralph! Any locality data on the w/c female? Best of luck on the creamsicle project, and I might eventually do that here, but it will be a couple years down the road.
Here are a few old pics of Nueces County, TX meahllies - sorry, nothing new, but will get a photo of my holdback '07 female soon.
-Toby
wisema2297
Aug 15, 2008 03:10 PM
I do not know the county. The person who had her told me that she was wc from Texas pretty close to the Mexican boarder by a friend of his. I have no reason to doubt him because when I asked him if it was a meahllmorum he said, "a meal-a-what"? I then offered him a light colored copperhead in trade and he accepted. She is the one I will use for my striped cream project. One of the females I got from you will produce more of the same and the second female I'm not sure what I'm going to do with her. If I sell her it will have to be to someone who knows what she is and can appreciate it.
tbrock
Aug 16, 2008 01:03 PM
Sounds like it is from the lower Rio Grande valley, then - pretty cool! A meal-a-what? LOL What did he call it then? The most commonly used name, in my neck of the scrub, is Southern Plains Rat Snake, but there are some who still refer to them as Great Plains Rat Snakes.
-Toby
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Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research
wisema2297
Aug 16, 2008 08:40 PM
Yeah he just said that it was a female emoryi.
tbrock
Aug 16, 2008 10:12 PM
>>Yeah he just said that it was a female emoryi.
Well, some taxonomists want to do away with subspecies, so it may be reduced (back) to that, soon...
