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Help Identify this Milksnake

What kind of snake is in the picture?

  • Guatemalan Milksnake (abnorma)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Atlantic Central American Milksnake (polyzona)

    Votes: 2 40.0%

  • A different Milksnake (please share)

    Votes: 3 60.0%

  • It's not a Milksnake (please share)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    5
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We thought we knew what it was but now we are not so sure. It is definately a captive-bred 09 baby. Help us identify this snake. What is your vote?

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We thought we knew what it was but now we are not so sure. It is definately a captive-bred 09 baby. Help us identify this snake. What is your vote?

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I am very familiar with the meristics and identification of Mexican and Latin American milksnakes, but with just that one pic alone, it is virtually impossible to give an accurate ID. I connot see the head and face well at all, or count the RBR(red body rings) either to help with the ID. If you posted some full-body shots so that the rings could be counted, as well as seeing the head too(from the side too), then this might help out a great deal.

But depending on what things look like even when this is done, there is always the possibility that it can't be conclusive at all either. Fact is, many so-called hondurensis in todays hobby are a mixed lineage composed of one or more of the following snakes,....stuarti, abnorma, polyzona, blanchardi, etc...this is how things have been with many(but certainly not all) of them since the very beginning of them being available to the hobby. This is just a fact, and there is no way around it as far as many of them go.

Any of the other milk gurus I know will all tell you the same exact thing. Many intricate parts to this story are very lengthy, so I won't go into it all here, but this is how the true dynamics of these snakes has played out over the past few decades.


~Doug
 
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