Yeah, it certainly would be difficult (to impossible) to distinguish between the two. Glad you got some more amels going Jimmy. They sure are neat and unerrated snakes. I always really liked the fact that the original amel corn gene and the newer amel emoryi gene were totally incompatible and non-allelic. It just makes them that much more unique.

Best of luck with looking into some of those snows!

cheers, ~Doug
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