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For Sale 2023 Hatch Female Mexican West Coast Cribo, D. m. rubidus

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0.2 2023 hatch Mexican West Coast Cribo. These girls are feeding on thawed hopper mice and small, fuzzy rats and growing nicely. $1,100 each shipped or $2,100 for both shipped.

For more information, please contact Stan Grumbeck, (972) 515-5789.
 

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Stan, glad to see you are using the common name of Cribo for this subsp. due to the change of all Mexican subsp. having been grouped to melanurus. Even the Texas should be referred to as a Cribo. Cribos are closely related to the Eastern Indigo but couperi is now distinct from those continuing south into South America. They are like triangulum of many clades and faces, they just blend from one group into the next.
 
Hey Bill, thank you for the note. I have always thought of these guys as Cribos and agree that D. couperi is certainly a distinct animal. However, I don't think the Texas animals will ever be called anything but Indigos. That's been their common name for too may years. I don't feel it matters too much with common names as it doesn't effect how they're classified.
 
striper1165 said:
What color are these as adults. Are they basically the same as the Texas Cribos
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Hello, I apologize for the delay in responding. They are not quite like Texas Indigos as they do not have the brown cast to them. They are much blacker, more like the Eastern Indigos, or they can be a blue-black color. They have white to off-white chins and throats.
 
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