and always have been. Several years ago there was a giant debate on this forum about this subject. One person (he was from Georgia or the Carolinas or one of the coastal states) was especially adamant that canebreaks were a very different snake and there was no mistaking them. A couple weeks later Dave Prada posted some Timbers from his New York dens and that same person replied "nice canes!", lol.

I always used to point out that there was far more difference between Az. molossus and Texas molossus than between the timber populations yet everybody accepted them as one subspecies (interestingly recent DNA suggest that Texas and Az. molossus truely are different subspecies with the dividing line somewhere in New. Mexico)

Cheers,

Rich

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