My really good friend and herping partner, oh and cactus and meteor partner, has, albinos, ghosts, axanthics, and maybe more. Most were from another long time friend, Don Shores.

About black kings, everywhere black kings are found, so are splendida. They appear to have the same relationship as Cal kings in SoCal, wetter areas include a black morph or striped in the case of Cal Kings. Dryer areas, normal splendida or again with cal kings, bandeds. This also occurs with other kings as well, like mearnsi in Fla. Also L.nitida and L.conjuncta in Baja

Lower wetter habitats tend to support a darker snake or unicolored animals, dryer open habitats support blotched or banded, in getula.
You can call them what you want. But its silly considering getula is a very polymorphic snake. Its kinda like saying a rainbow is blue. Wait, no its red, No, its a rainbow.

Morphs tend to be found in urban areas and for simple reason, that's where people are. ALso, its disturbed habitat and morphs do not have to put up with silly natural selection pressures. Therefore they are free to extend their phenotypic appearance.

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