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Well I finally got my issues with photo posting worked out so here is gabriel, I have full body pics but they're farther away and don't show the markings as clearly....

Just for kicks

I did a few image searches and could come up nothing like your animal. I think unless a Cal King locality expert comes on and says yes thats how they look in a particular County you will never know for sure what its crossed with. Locality Cal Kings arent often offered so I doubt that is some odd locality. One thing I did notice is that those lateral speckles look alot like some of the white spotting you see on some striped Cal Kings. Could be just a manifestation of that as Cals are extremely variable and you can get quite bit of odd looking patterned animals. Anyway the more I look at it the less I think Outer Banks King cross but lean more towards either a pure cal with an odd pattern or a Cal with some Splendida genetics in it. Either way its a beautiful snake and should make a great pet for you.

Keith
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Looks like a lampropeltis getula californiae X lampropeltis getula splendida intergrade. The California king and the desert king naturally intergrade where their ranges overlap. So technically it is not a hybrid, it is a natural occurring intergrade. Nice looking specimen too! Have fun with it and keep us posted!

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1.0 Corn snake
1.0 Black rat snake
1.0 Albino Black rat snake
1.0 Everglades rat snake
0.1 Yellow rat snake
1.1 California king snake
1.0 Prairie king snake
0.1 Black king snake

Good luck and Happy Herping
Brian

Idon't know...May be a splendita intergrade...But the way the speckled areas appear is reminiscent of Jurrasic Kingsnakes. while there is no red I can see that could be the result of a stronger California king influence. I have seen locally bred examples that have simililarities. It could also be the result of a cross to a Florida ssp. You did not say if it was c/b or w/c. (I'm assuming c/b). which brings up the complaint that many have about crossing (hybridizing)snakes that are then put into the market un-IDed.

Frank
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"The luxury of not getting involved departed with the last lifeboat Skipper..."

I would tend to say it was an outcrossed cal king X jungle corn/hybrid. Not knowing the background its my best guess,Jeff

Well if it's not a "outercalididabrooks" then I'd say it's a Cal. king X goini. From the few I've seen that look similar, I'd guess it was/is het for albino too. The ones I know about were the result of Albino desert Cal. X blotched king.The albinos actually look pretty cool.
Who knows?
:Mark

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