Please Identify

[Lisa4john]

Nice looking snake, thanks for sharing. He looks almost like a concinnus, but not quite such bold spots... to my untrained eyes anyway.

[ConcinusMan]

Nice looking snake, thanks for sharing. He looks almost like a concinnus, but not quite such bold spots... to my untrained eyes anyway.

Yes, very close. But the two subspecies are nearly identical on a genetic level so its not surprising. Some populations even share specific genes or genetic markers with populations of concinnus' many miles to the south. In short, at some point in the recent past, they were one. Nothing more than geographic morph variations of the same snake, now geographically separated and evolving separately.