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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DVirginiana" data-source="post: 39828" data-attributes="member: 3320">Based on my experience with garters (same question comes up a LOT since there are so many species in the same genus) hybrids will tend to look like less-desirable versions of the parents.  A big reason behind this is that the alleles often won't match up.  A human example is deafness; you can have two deaf parents, both possessing two alleles for deafness.  If these alleles are located at different areas of the chromosome, none of their children will be deaf.  And that's within the same species.  The likelihood alleles are going to match up between different species is even less, so in addition to creating a taxonomic nightmare, you probably wouldn't even get the traits you want.</blockquote>