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This is my Desert. She is a strange color. i was wondering what the name of this color morph is and about it. and what price is this snake worth??

Shes wild caught.

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who told you that was a desert cal king?

looks like a bannana Cal king which is a mix of different locales of coastal calif kingsnakes. Not from the desert. Desert cal kings are white and not yellow.
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"Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8".

"They that can give up essential liberty, to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety." -Benjamin Franklin

There is NOTHING wild-caught about that snake! And, as Bluerosy stated, that isn't even a desert-phase getula. Pretty, but manmade.

>>This is my Desert. She is a strange color. i was wondering what the name of this color morph is and about it. and what price is this snake worth??

Sorry to say...It is not a Desert King (Splendida) nor a Desert California Kingsnake (Calforniae) nor is it a wild caught snake.....It is worth $100 MAXIMUM In my honest opinion......

It looks to be an adult Banana Calking morph. There are many in the hobby and are manmade not a wild phenotype.......

If you did find it in the wild then it is probably a captive bred escapee.....
Did you find it?
Where do you live?
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The man who caught it said he found it in the mountains in Arizona. He said it was splendida. hah, guess not.

I am not saying it wasnt captured in the mountains of Arizona by that man. He may have captured it, realized it was a king, and read information stating the kings in that area were classified as L. g. splendida or Desert king. HOWEVER, it screams banana cal king to me. If the same guy offered you prime swampland in Louisiana at a good price when he gave you the snake, then I might question his ethics LOL!!

A definite NO on it being a Desert Kingsnake(L.g.splendida), and as the other's mentioned, it is a captive line-bred for reduced pattern coastal type "Newport-Longbeach" form of California Kingsnake.

Here is another captive-bred one that is very similar.

~Doug

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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

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yeah the black nape thing is a dead givaway amongst many other things that it is a cal king.

But who is to say it was N O T a release in what somebody thought was a good area to release a kingsnake? Nowadays with captive breeding it is more likely than before. Especialy with calif kingsnake morphs which have been bred over a very long period of time. It is a staple pet shop snake along with the cornsnake which can be found in Mall pet stores and the large pet shop chains.
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"Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8".

"They that can give up essential liberty, to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety." -Benjamin Franklin

Oh yeah,...that is always a definite possibility now days.

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

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No, that is a definite SCAREY possibility having adult banana calkings running loose in splendida territory!!

My good herp buddy got a cal from a lady regarding a black and yellow snake she saw in her rose bush here in Baton Rouge, LA. She got my buds name and number from someone who said he could help her with the snake problem. Ok, black and yellow snake in South Louisiana, Hmmm.... We both thought she had a speckled king in her rose bush as that is the most prominent snake you would call black and yellow around here. Goes to the house, tentatively pulls back a few branches of the bush due to inaccurate description of the lady, and VIOLA.. juvenile spider morph ball python LOL!!! Some SOBs have all the luck!!!

I hear ya bro!..LOL!

My friend was describing a snake to me he saw while fishing that didn't sound to me like anything native to his area in Florida, or to this entire country either for that matter!

As good as I am about identifying snakes though, what always seems to KILL me is most of the general public's descriptions of them to me. Some folks descriptions of snakes just blow me away and do nothing but confuse me MORE..LOL!

"uh,...well, it had a big pointy "triangle-shaped head, with definite diamonds along it's back".

Turns out to be a hatchling Yellow Ratsnake..LOL!

Most peoples perception of what they see is far different than mine, and even when I try most of the time to account for this, it can still be just about ANYTHING!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

Sometimes a little knowledge is More dangerous,Its amazing that after seeing some captive critters to hear how many people in Florica have juvi Bearded Dragons in their yard ,have killed young tri color Black Milks in their garage etc....and the common folk are scared about a fictional Python invasion

Once the Feds start the banning of keeping all reptiles, you can expect a boatload of problems with releases.
Can you imagine how many more we're fixin' to have here in FL?
It shows that these "laws" are not about the animals' well being at all....just about control. Period. Well and $$!
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

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It won't "STOP" or alleviate diddly squat, just create a whole NEW set of problems!.........period!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

It's an banana Cal king.
this is mine