*** ...it has just become widely accepted,but misleading and technically erroneous,to call them kingsnakes,or even a 'type of kingsnake'...they are each their own species in their own right. ***

There is nothing "technically erroneous" about it. It does not follow the common naming convention that you, for whatever reasons, prefer. That does not make it wrong. All kingsnake species, by definition, are species "in their own right." That does not stop them from being kingsnakes.

My naming convention (kingsnake = Lampropeltis) is widely used, and has the advantage of being rational, not the result of historical accidents where some species of getula got named kings and other got named milks (and still other subspecies of the milks got named kings again).

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