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anuraanman
at Thu Jun 12 00:33:04 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by anuraanman ]
I'd question it being a black rat too. I'd feel more comfortable calling it a Gray Ratsnake, Pantherophis somethingorother spiloides. I've heard grays called chickensnakes too so that would make sense as well.
Somebody straighten me out on the current nomenclature please. I know it was E. obsoleta spilodes and then all that work was done splitting up the species with E. obsoleta to the southwest and E. alleghaniensis to the northeast. Tennessee is kind of in the middle so I don't know which end of the spectrum it ended up getting... Anyway, after all of that the genus changed too but that shouldn't reflect at all on the particular question I have at the moment 
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