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A customer brought this snake in. It's a male, roughly three years old. He’s perfectly healthy, roughly forty inches long. Anybody seen a corn that looks like this? Check the longitudinal stripes? Looks like an everglades or yellow rat stripe super imposed on the corn snake pattern. He's got a good temperament though. Check the head pattern in the next couple of pics? It's very faint!

I'm open to suggestions of what this guy is.

Chris

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give it to me. 2nd, I think it's a corn everglades rat hybrid.

Well, it is not uncommon to see a bit of the "striping" basically in the normal morph of the corn. I have seen plenty of them with this sriping look and have a couple myself. It may be that this one's shows up a bit more because it is a "light" toned snake. I wouldn't, myself, say it was not a pure corn because of that.

I have a wild caught Florida corn that shows this stiping affect.If I could load pictures directly from my computer, I'd show you what I mean, but don't have time ot load them into the photo gallery first. Maybe I'll put up a picture after work today.

It is not at all uncommon to see lateral striping in normal corns, especially as they age. Just as many rat snake species resemble one another as hatchlings, so also do many as they age. There is nothing about those pictures that would suggest to me that the animal is an intergrade or hybrid of any type.
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Darin Chappell
Hillbilly Herps
PO Box 254
Rogersville, MO 65742

Here is that picture I was referring to. This is an approx. 5 year old Florida Wild Caught corn. You can see the striping on his back even though he has saddles.

If you show us the belly, we'll probably all agree it's a key's corn (rosy rat). Colors are sure there and I've seen some with those dorso-lateral stripes. It's also got the lean body style of that race.
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i have a snake that looks like, it has no pattern on its head but has pretty pronounced striping and is pretty yellow. after posting its pic in this forum, the ratsnake forum, and the hybird forum it has been pretty much decided it has some yellow or everglades ratsnake in it.

sorry for the bad pics, but here is its striping at another angle (its weird but at certain angles the stripes are very distinct)