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gopher snake terminoogy

Gopher just refers to anything classified as Pituophis catenifer. There's no real convention on what subgroup, biologically is a gopher, and what is a "bull". Technically bullsnake is used for Pituophis catenifer sayi, but that subspecies designation, like most, likely has no real meaning.

The most recent published work on the Pituophis complex can be found here:
https://faculty.unlv.edu/jrodriguez/21.pdf
 
From what I have read, a Meeker is a morph characterized by atypical pattern and the name comes from the name of the discoverer/producer.
 
In my mind I didn't even recognize that the OP was asking about a pet trade name. I'm so used to reading typos and poor writing that my mind filled that word with something else - reading it now I'm not sure what. Good catch Nickolas. Sorry about that OP.
 
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