Posted by:
DMong
at Thu Jun 12 11:57:45 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DMong ]
Well,....in the Nashville area, there are two Ratsnakes indigenous to the area, the Black Ratsnake, and the Gray Ratsnake.
As this range map also suggests, I'd say from the looks of it that it has some intergrade lineage of BOTH Ratsnakes, although it does seem to have some visual traits also found in the Texas Ratsnake(lighter yellowish background). But unless this was an escaped animal, or a product of a released/escapee snake at one time that mated with one from the area and had offspring, of which your animal is the result of, it would be way too far away to have any natural influence from the Texas Rat.
I can say for a fact that it has a good percentage of Black Rat in it's genetic lineage, and very likely Gray as well,...but beyond that, it's impossible to say.
best regards, ~Doug
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