Quote Originally Posted by EasternGirl View Post
I thought concinnus when I first saw the pics too. She is lovely! Very nice find.
To the untrained eye I suppose. This is why I see so many snakes for sale, particularly infernalis, parietalis, concinnus, fitchi, or any other garter with red spots, being misidentified as one or the other when its not. Even worse, this leads to hybrids which are then sold as one of those snakes.

To clarify, red pugets have puget facial markings, darker black, and a different shade of orange. If I showed that snake side by side with a similar snake of a different subspecies, the differences would be quite obvious. Just like a laterally striped concinnus next to a fitchi. Yes, very similar but the colors are different as well as other visual clues.

Time and time again I see people calling red pugets, "valley garters"