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Ok by no means am I a "King" guy so help me with this one. It is darker than photo. Flash lightened it up.

Thanks
Brent
BRB Reptiles

I'm having trouble with it. Maybe some kind of aberrant chocolate Cal king? Not sure, maybe some one else has a better ideah?
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J Sierra

Are you sure that's a kingsnake?
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Dustin Smith

Looks like a hypermelanistic California Kingsnake, the same recessive gene that produces the chocoltae colored Davis, Mendota and Baja morphs.

Kerby...
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reminds me a lot of a davis county melanistic king...I've actually seen a few like this one up around the Sac/Davis area.

Just wanted to add that you are perhaps the only person to say that the snake looks lighter in the photo than in person.

Usually folks always say that the snake looks "lighter in person", which is hardly ever really true. Appreciate your honesty. And with that color phase/locality of Cal king you have there, the darker the better!
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Mark

I say definitely a hypermelanistic Cal king. It looks like a mix between a delta morph from Northern California and a Newport from So Cal. Its tough to see extreme detail in that picture, but from what I'm seeing, its a cross between those two. Cool looking snake.
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Thanks for all the help. I thought Cal King all along but wanted to see what the pros thought! It is truly a beautiful snake. I have just never seen one like it before.

Brent