In todays hobby, that is considered a Sinaloan Milksnake(Lampropeltis triangulum sinaloae), although I see it also has a good percentage gene-flow from the very closely related Nelson's Milksnake(Lampropeltis nelsoni) as well, and depending who was selling it, could have literally been sold as either one. It's fairly difficult to see really exceptional textbook examples of the two anymore, but I do see some from time to time. I actually specialize in milksnakes, and have raised and bred many of these and others over the years, so there's no question at all as to exactly what the snake is.



The fact is, most of either that have been for sale in the hobby for many years are a genetic combination of both sinaloae, AND nelsoni. I could go on in great depth about the meristical differences, and shapes of the triads, RBR(red body ring) count, spacing legth between the triads(rings of three), etc..., but the bottom line is for all practical "hobby" purposes, you basically have a Sinaloan,......so go ahead and enjoy it!,...milksnakes are some great animals, no doubt!



Some of the very best representatives of the Sinaloan Milksnake, are of the Cosala, Mexico stock!,..."google" them up on a search, and You will see some incredible examples of these that some friends of mine work with.

If you go to the "milksnake" forum, Dave Niles has some real killer examples of the Cosala bloodline.



best regards, ~Doug



Here is one of the very best examples of nelsoni from many years ago that I or anyone specializing in milks has ever seen to date.



here is a nice Sinaloan that could possibly have a certain amount of nelsoni in it's lineage, tough to say with absolute certainty though, but is still far better than many in today's hobby.







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