Mystery Locality Boa

Nightflight99 · 02-15-16, 08:53 AM

How about a little ID game to beat the Monday blues?

Threads that ask the various boa communities to identify the locality/form/morph of a particular boa are extremely common, and are usually full of all sorts of interesting proposals. This is an adult boa with locality data. Can you guess which locality it is? What say you?

**Andy_G** · 02-15-16, 10:50 AM

Total shot in the dark...and I am not certain as it has some atypical traits...but
..Peruvian?

Albert Clark · 02-15-16, 01:00 PM

Don't know, but he is one healthy looking individual! He should be on the cover of REPTILES magazine. That much I do know. Haha.

SnoopySnake · 02-15-16, 01:11 PM

Some kind of brazilian boa?

Nightflight99 · 02-16-16, 05:58 AM

There are some good guesses in here already! Anyone else wanna throw their answer into the hat?

dannybgoode · 02-16-16, 06:33 AM

Looking at the body colour coupled with the little 'rosettes' on the sides I'd say a CA imperator and am going with a Nic...

**Andy_G** · 02-17-16, 04:20 PM

No winner yet?

Nightflight99 · 02-17-16, 04:28 PM

Some of those were really good. Let's get a couple more before we reveal the answer.

bigsnakegirl785 · 02-17-16, 10:17 PM

A Colombian/constrictor mix?

Nightflight99 · 02-18-16, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by bigsnakegirl785

A Colombian/constrictor mix?

This is an interesting suggestion. I'm curious--what made you lean toward that?

bigsnakegirl785 · 02-18-16, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Nightflight99

This is an interesting suggestion. I'm curious--what made you lean toward that?

lol Well, everyone else already took my first guesses!

Then I looked at the saddle shape vs. the contrast, and then at the face patterns. There's a good contrast, and the saddles have really good outlines and are nice and dark, but solid. I figured, it's a constrictor for sure, but it's body shape didn't have the over-muscled look of a constrictor so I thought maybe there's some imperator influence allowing it to have a looser muscle structure. I know peaks don't decide a constrictor or imperator, so I was looking more at how the saddles connected with sides (not the diamonds). Not sure what they're called, but those little triangles directly on the side. Looks very imperator. Constrictors don't appear to have as big of triangles or have as big of a white spot on the edges of the dorsal portion of the saddles.

Then there's also a mix of the high color contrast of constrictor and the dirty blurriness of the imperator in between the saddles, with the snake becoming a much lighter brown at the front. Again, you don't notice this so much in constrictor.

I could be completely wrong, but these are the most obvious things I've noticed looking at all the different examples of constrictor and imperator, and since Peruvian and Brazilian were already taken I just threw it out there. haha

sirtalis · 02-18-16, 02:12 PM

Im gonna guess peruvian? maybe a bcl?

**Andy_G** · 02-18-16, 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by bigsnakegirl785

lol Well, everyone else already took my first guesses!

Then I looked at the saddle shape vs. the contrast, and then at the face patterns. There's a good contrast, and the saddles have really good outlines and are nice and dark, but solid. I figured, it's a constrictor for sure, but it's body shape didn't have the over-muscled look of a constrictor so I thought maybe there's some imperator influence allowing it to have a looser muscle structure. I know peaks don't decide a constrictor or imperator, so I was looking more at how the saddles connected with sides (not the diamonds). Not sure what they're called, but those little triangles directly on the side. Looks very imperator. Constrictors don't appear to have as big of triangles or have as big of a white spot on the edges of the dorsal portion of the saddles.

Then there's also a mix of the high color contrast of constrictor and the dirty blurriness of the imperator in between the saddles, with the snake becoming a much lighter brown at the front. Again, you don't notice this so much in constrictor.

I could be completely wrong, but these are the most obvious things I've noticed looking at all the different examples of constrictor and imperator, and since Peruvian and Brazilian were already taken I just threw it out there. haha

All valid points...my guess was Peruvian BCC because even their tails don't always stay as red as some other BCC subspecies...but I definitely wouldn't be surprised if you're correct.

reptiledude987 · 02-18-16, 05:28 PM

Im voting venezuelan or trinidad bcc

Mad Max · 02-20-16, 01:41 PM

Ecuadorian BCC