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RE: “I Have A Crossing Question”
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by bush_viper17 on October 8, 2005
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Hey Cro. Do you have any photos of the florida key ratsnake? I have never heard of that one, but I have heard of the Gulf Hammock rat.
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by GREGLONGHURST on October 8, 2005
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Talk about intergrades...the kingsnakes in Palm Beach County, Florida are neither brooksi nor floridana. The former is found to the south, the latter to the north.
~~Greg~~
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by ALA_herp31 on October 8, 2005
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Makes you wonder how many of the Colubrids we find in North America, are actually Intergrades between two Subspecies?...........Be safe ya’ll, Happy Herping : Wally
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by Cro on October 9, 2005
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Jeremy: I think I might have a color transparancy of the key ratsnake somewhere in my files. I will look for it, and when I get my slide scanner back from my friend who borrowed it, I will try to digitize the photo and Email it to you.
Deckert`s rat snake was a very beautyful animal, much different and unique from the yellow rat snake or the everglades rat snake, and was found in a very small area of mostly mangrove swamps and sub-tropical forests with banyon tree habitats. Now, the rarely found snake is just considered a color morph, instead of a sub-species.
I have only found two or three of them in the wild, and that was many years ago.
Supposedly, the hurricanes that have hit South Florida over the years have spread everglades and yellow rat snakes into areas that once only had only key rat snakes, and the inbreeding has ruined the isolation this snake once had, thus making it now almost impossible to find a true deckerti color morph.
Best Regards JohnZ
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