ronhalling
Very Well-Known Member
Carrying on from recent discussion about Intergrades and overlapping Geographic areas i am still a bit confused as to how they give species their names, so hopefully Norm will chime in here with his particular liking for Intergrades. So here is the quandrey...as i believe it to be the Geographic range for Diamond Pythons is accepted as being roughly the Vic border to around Newcastle, and the Geographic range for Coastal Carpet Pythons is roughly Cairns to around Tweed heads, so everything in between is accepted as the Intergrade Zone, am i roughly right so far??....from reading other peoples posts including my own it has been said there have been animals North of Newcastle that look more like Diamonds than those down South and conversely people have also seen animals South of Tweed Heads that look more like Coastals than those North of the Queensland border, what about all the animals in the Intergrade Zone......people see posts in the forum here of an animal where the OP has posted it to be a Diamond or a Coastal and have to tell the OP it is not actually what they think it is that it is probably an Intergrade, so then why did they have to make this zone without doing something about the names of the snakes i.e those South of Newcastle as Morelia Spilota Spilota (Diamond) those North of Tweed Heads Morelia Spilota McDowelli (Coastal) and those in the Intergrade Zone as Morelia Spilota Intergradas (Intergrade) IMO it would stop a lot of the confusion. (LOL i confused myself typing it) Would like to see the opinions of those who might actually know something about it. .........................Ron