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Originally Posted by netviper
This is not accurate. Mexican black kings are nigrita and the black kings are nigra. Their ranges do not touch and they do not have a large range compared to their congeners. The OP sounds like they are describing nigra. Captively produced MBK typically are a solid dark brown/black including their ventrals.
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Nope, @Snowgyre's comments are correct. There are no longer subspecies in the getula complex. The paper that restores the species is here:
https://www.researchgate.net/publica...ge_In_Taxonomy
This sort of taxonomic reorganization is very common lately as molecular phylogenetics enables the cleaning up of past shortcomings in evaluating evolutionary relationships.
Great resource for taxonomy information is here:
https://reptile-database.reptarium.c...species=getula
https://reptile-database.reptarium.c...&species=nigra