Quote Originally Posted by gsarchie View Post
Awesome find. I will say that the professor that I did research for as an undergrad had done some genetics work and published a paper along with some others stating definitively that canebrake is not in fact subspecies of Crotalus horridus but merely a regional variant. Either way, congrats on an awesome find! I wish I could have been there too, and if I ever get a hot someday it will be a TR, hands down.
I have a hard time believing that they are one in the same, I mean if northern and southern copperheads are different sub species then why not timbers and canebrakes? There are other snakes that I feel there is poorly placed as well, like emory rats and Miami phase corns. Emorys are a sub species or corn but Miami phase isn't. But I digress I am not a geneticist so its just opinions for me.