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I have recently seen albino Sinaloan milks available and was curious if these are the results of crossing with albino Nelson's milks or if they are pure Sinaloans.

Thanks.

And the thing is, if they were "pure" sinaloae (whatever that means), no one could ever prove it, because in some areas in the wild sinaloans look a heck of alot like nelsoni, meaning they are very closely related anyway.

Heck for that matter, why do so many albino nelsoni have bullseye patterns? Do alot of normals? Were there populations of normal nelsoni that had bullseyes, or did they come about when the albinos were integrated in?

There's an article on Kingsnake.com's caresheet link that discusses the whole Nelson/Sinaloan question.
I hope it helps.
-Phil
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There are no pure albino Sinaloans. People have cross bred Sinaloans with Nelson's, which are scientifically recognized as a separate subspecies. Despite this, there are some people who consider Nelson's and Sinaloans the same thing. There are others who opted to take a shortcut when albino Nelson's came out, due the the fact that at the time Nelson's were harder to get than Sinolaons, so they cross bred the two subspecies.

Tim

Third Eye

and if it was of known locality?

Vinny
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I appreciate the link and the information. I was curious about them as I don't remember seeing albino Sinaloans at all several years ago and now they seem to be popping up in ads and lists with regularity.

That's also an interesting comment that was made about the bullseye patterning on albino nelsoni. My male has it with the low band count, but my female is perfectly banded and has a high band count.

Also, if anyone might have any recommendations for breeders albino ruthevni, I'd very much appreciate it.