Definately not a nelsoni. I agree with the others who said it looks like an amelanistic pure ruthveni.

If it were mine I would call it a generic amel ruthveni. To me generic means any snake for which there is no specific locality, yet still resembles the pure species or subspecies and has no known history of crossing. Alternatively it could be applied to snakes of known mixed localities, where somebody intentionally mixed two or more different localities of the same type of snake in order to achieve a desired result.

Some people don't like the term generic because they feel it sorta implies there is something "lesser" about the snake. Personally I have never felt that way and I use the term generic on all of my Mexican species and subspecies of kingsnakes for which I have no locality data, Tarahumara Mtn. Kings, Greer's Knigs and San Luis Potosi Kings. I do wish people would not think of generic as being a bad thing. IMHO generic can often mean higher quality because it could be that somebody mixed localities in order to create an "idealized" version of whatever species or subspecies it is that they are working with.

The only thing to watch out for with respect to your snake is if you breed it and some or all of the hatchlings displayed mixed characteristics of other species or subspecies. Then you'd have to figure that it had been crossed at some point in the past.

BTW very nice looking snake. Amel Ruthven's are my favorite amels of all herps.
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