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I rembered your interest in these. You really haven't seen or heard anything about these? They've been around for a long time, but seen very infrequently. I saw these recently and took a few pics. I have other pics of some from the past, but haven't been able to access my archive drive. There is a debate on whether they are a naturally ocurring morph between mid and lower Baja animals, or man made crosses. I would think they are probably just a habitat variant of lower Baja Rosys, stemming from the lighter brown striped trivs that show up occationally. Anyway, they are distictive in their stripe color difference from dorsal to lateral, especially in the second half of the snake (from head to tail.)

Eimon

of them before. Love that look. I hope that they are a naturally-occuring morph. Anyhow, thanks for posting. Would love to acquire some like that.

SSS

I'm thinking those are man made. There have not been any animals collected from the would/could be "intergrade zone" that is thought to naturally occur with myriolepis and trivirgata, to my knowledge. If so, nobody has made mention of it. I could be wrong, but you and I would have heard about it. I have unfortunately seen animals that looked like that that were AZ gracia and a unknown trivirgata locality crossed. All of the myriolepis/trivirgata crosses that I have unfortunately seen looked more myriolepis than trivirgata. The only animals that even look like a natural myriolepis/trivirgata intergrade are locality Bay of LA animals that Randy Limburg collected just east of the town of Bay of LA in the first outcroppings going up the grade. They are pure myriolepis. I will post pic's of that blood line as soon as I can.

Jer