Since then, all I could think about, when herping Western Riverside Co., was finding a king with a completely barred pattern. Here's one of the Riverside areas I searched.
Finally during the spring of 2008 I lucked out and found this snake in pure form. When I first laid my eyes on her after lifting a board, she looked like a normal banded from above. It wasn't until I bent down to pick her up that I noticed I had found exactly what I was hoping to find for the past two years. What impressed me most about this snake is how complete the over all barred pattern is. Most Newport-Long Beach barred morphs more dots and dashes in the pattern.
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