Granite . . .
Actually, the key's animals in question were named GRANITE by Craig Boyd around 10 years ago, when we were still calling anery bloods ANERY BLOODS. When the anery bloods were named RAIDER corns, it was disputed and a vote was taken on this forum to change that name. One of the options for the new name was GRANITE. Around that time, I pointed out that the name was already being used for the key's corn morph. It was decided by someone at that time to ignore this information and reassign GRANITE to the anery bloods. Just a few months later, Kathy's book came out with the picture of the key's animal, the granite corn.
In every situation that I'm aware, the first person to assign the name of anything, lays claim to that name. Resolution of this debate may well boil down to the question, "who published first?" and/or what is the definition of publish?. I personally first saw one of the key's granites in person at the first Daytona expo (was that 1999?). Guss Rentfro and Craig Boyd had an adult specimen on display there, and the following week, they shipped me a trio of neonates.
In my next book, a picture not unlike the one Kathy published will be called GRANITE. It would be sad if there were two entirely different snakes with the same name, so I hope this is resolved by then. I think it's only fair to comply with common sense and let the first name assignment stand. If only Kathy had known the CS forum members were reassigning an established morph name to a different snake just months before her book showed the name was already in use. Surely anery bloods would have a different name today and we wouldn't be in this mess. I recall at the time saying that both Stephen Fowler and Brian Barczyk (BHB Enterprises) were breeding this key's variety, but had not yet listed them on their web sites. If someone finds that thread, I recall someone making a statement to the effect, "if we're unaware of that morph on this forum, the previous user of this name will have to change the name of their's ". Shoulddah used paraphrase markers instead of quotes on that. I don't recall the exact language used at that time.
At this time, the keys' animals are taxonomically classified as pure corn snakes. From speaking to the originator of this morph (Craig Boyd), the original breeders were wild caught on one of the keys. As someone previously pointed out, color and pattern mutations are not uncommon in any given population of corn. IE: cinders and rosy bloods, to name just two morphs of the keys' race. It is my observation from seeing about 12 of these key corns that we're dealing with the striped pattern here; specifically one that has the vanishing effect.
Don Soderberg
South Mountain Reptiles
) when that name is already established? I've never seen or heard of them before. :shrugs:
