A Black king from S. Az.

From 18 miles east of the real black king are these semi black kings. Now if you look in Hubbs book, he calls these black kings. The poor boy is so naïve.

This one was taken 7 miles northwest of the pure black king. this little area has these banded blackish kings, and is surrounded by splendida types.

This one is another blackish banded from aprox 60 miles northwest of those others. Its from a small higher elevation population that's surrounded by normal Yuma king types
Its funny but these dark banded types are the Az version of grease kings.
All the above are naturally occurring, all the above are in small pockets. And all the above and a million more color types occur in a small area on the range map of CAL KINGS. A map by Brian Hubbs, in fact, he somehow thinks they are continuous like his little maps, unfortunately, hes wrong. They occur in pockets of genetically isolated kings. Don't make me post more, as I only have a few hundred more pics. Oh yea, those grease king types also occur 150 miles north of these. Dang kingsnakes!

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