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Posted by Terry Parks on March 25, 2002 at 19:49:32:

In Reply to: what is a posted by johnc on March 25, 2002 at 11:08:41:

help. Go to the web site and then go to corn snakes. There seems to be alot of interest lately from discussion on taxonomy and people are beginning to see kisatchies are very unique corns and very rare in collections. I have some offspring I'm raising now to work with. The females and almost all the males have very little red if any. The theory on the red in males is that it is a dimorphic trait from the original parental stock. The classic kisatchie color is brownish (chocolate) bloctches with silver/gray background. The father (has red) of my offspring is a wild caught from the Natchitoches Parish in The Kisatchie National Forest and was collectd by Mike Monlezaun. The mother of my offspring is captive bred from two wild caughts from the same parish and was produced by Theron Majors. So the parents of my offspring are locality matched. I'm going with red in my males and all the females are the classic kisatchie color. I guess alot of the discussion on them has to do with your acceptance of taxonomy. Is emoryi a ssp of guttatta or its own species? I don't think its that big an issue myself with regard to kisatchie corns(others may diasgree). There is definately a combination of corns from the east and corns/emoryis from the west. This combination of genes has allowed the kisatchies to survive where neither the west or east could do on their own. They are truly a UNIQUE corn and I love having them in my colection and being able to work with them. I hope this helps.
http://www.kingsnake.com/louisiana/

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this is all very helpful and is this covered in any books? .... johnc 03/26/02 (4)
- Hi John and Terry.... Terry Cox 03/27/02 (3)
  - Thanks again for your comments . . . .> Terry Parks 03/27/02 (2)
    - Hi, Terry. Sorry it took so long....> Terry Cox 03/29/02 (0)
    - Read above regarding New subspecies name. n/p robc 03/28/02 (0)

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: help. Go to the web site and then go to corn snakes. There seems to be alot of interest lately from discussion on taxonomy and people are beginning to see kisatchies are very unique corns and very rare in collections. I have some offspring I'm raising now to work with. The females and almost all the males have very little red if any. The theory on the red in males is that it is a dimorphic trait from the original parental stock. The classic kisatchie color is brownish (chocolate) bloctches with silver/gray background. The father (has red) of my offspring is a wild caught from the Natchitoches Parish in The Kisatchie National Forest and was collectd by Mike Monlezaun. The mother of my offspring is captive bred from two wild caughts from the same parish and was produced by Theron Majors. So the parents of my offspring are locality matched. I'm going with red in my males and all the females are the classic kisatchie color. I guess alot of the discussion on them has to do with your acceptance of taxonomy. Is emoryi a ssp of guttatta or its own species? I don't think its that big an issue myself with regard to kisatchie corns(others may diasgree). There is definately a combination of corns from the east and corns/emoryis from the west. This combination of genes has allowed the kisatchies to survive where neither the west or east could do on their own. They are truly a UNIQUE corn and I love having them in my colection and being able to work with them. I hope this helps. : http://www.kingsnake.com/louisiana/

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