well if it's not a reccesive or co-dom trait that can be mixed with other known morphs to create new things, i'm still interested in the idea of a locale specific morph.

I know there are a lot of people like me that for some reason like having a pair of animals from the exact same spot more than animals from 100s of miles a way. I don't know why it works that way because 1 isnt any better than the other, its just how some people work, i guess.

I think what would help matters, is if everyone agreed upon what was what. seems like there are a lot of different opinions on what is a splendida, mbk, califoniae, and intergrade around that area and some folks that think a mbk is not a ssp, but just a morph of splendida. Then when you toss in melanistic vs hyper melanistic and then things like grease kings which seem to be hyper melanistic but to a varying degree but also some times hypomelanistic(ish) later in life.

it all becomes very confussing imo.