KJUN
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carol said:1) Emoryi pattern does not survive outcrossing. Strangely enough most Creams and Rootbeers have a lower saddle count with wide saddles.
I agree that the adult normal colored images you posted look like corns without any obvious hybrid markers (if any such thing exists in captivity today), but the statement #1 above is partially incorrect. YES, the body blotch counts are more similar to corns in the cream-like hybrids, but the lateral blotch shapes are emoryi-like. The lateral blotch shapes are highly conserved, and "cornsnakes" with cream blood in them from long, long ago STILL show the lateral blotch markers of being creamsicles.
On another note, the verntal pattern I saw on ONE posted image (whatever a single sample means) was also similar to Baird's and not rosy rats or mainlain cornsnakes - plus don't forget the central fading of the blotches on the Type C Anerythristics like in baird's. Again, I am not trying to say these are hybrids. That isn't my point at all. I'm just pointing out the similarity in markings and asking for a possible explaination. I don't think there is one except "that's what they look like.) Finally, I don't know what other baird's hybrids look like. I could care less - I wish they didn't exist. BUT, anyone implying Type C Anerythristics can't be hybrids because there are minor differences between these and those of unkown origin I referenced would be like someone saying Type C Anerythristics were hybrids because ONE had reduced ventrals (ignoring the infulence of south Florida cornsnakes, of course....lol) and a high blotched counts.
All this is just babbling, really. No way to prove anything, and I'm not even trying to suggest anything. I ultimately just had a question on how common it is for them to have those high blotch counts. Even if I produced the first one from a gravid female collected in the wild, I wouldn't have been impressed with the looks of that morph. Different strokes for different folks, but I'd take a just about anything (except a reverse Okeetee) over a Type C Anerythristics any day. Of course, that doesn't mean the next multi-trait combo made with Type C Anerythristics isn't going to blow my socks off. Hope it does!
KJ