Regulation of the way hybrids are posted on the marketplace has certainly been rather inconsistent as evidenced in this thread.
Require certain interspecies hybrid colubrids be listed in the “Other Colubrids”
I’m on the team that they either need to be in the appropriate other category or that hybrid categories should be created.
One issue I can think of that would be hard to regulate though is certain morphs that originated from hybrids and are now mainstays in a certain “species” to the point that a large portion of keepers/breeders don’t even realize their snake with that morph is technically a hybrid. Think scaleless corn snakes.
Another problem that comes to mind is when science decides to split a “species” that has been in the hobby for years and years into multiple species. Are all of those snakes in that category now hybrids?
I can’t think of it being as big an issue, but yet another complication could be when science decides to lump many “species” that have been in the hobby into one species.
Regardless I do hope that the marketplace puts forth more effort in regulating blatant hybrids from being posted in species specific categories.