To be honest, personally I wouldn't breed it to anything other than another intergrade just like it from that same locality.

I have the very same dilemma with that "Nogales" locality king I have. If I cannot locate another one from that same bloodline later on that came from that founding "Nogales",Arizona lineage, I will not breed it. I won't breed it to a pure splendida, or "Yuma" intergrade kingsnake, or whatever the case may be.

Truth is, I do not know what percentage of exactly what it TRULY is anyway, and nobody else does either. All three ssp.forms meet right together in that one area, and can look like any combination of all three, or more like either individual ssp. of the three, or any two, or whatever..LOL!.

I know it has strong splendida influence, but nigrita, and some californiae are also very likely in there, just know way to tell what percentage of what..LOL!

Heck, nigrita is very likely a mere melanistic form of splendida anyway, so when one looks at the locality charts in Hubbs' book, it can be a freakin coin-toss in THAT respect too. The thing is a real unexplainable puzzle right there in extreme southeastern Arizona man, that is a fact!

~Doug
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