Leopard Boas

[hisba]

I do not know much about this morph (if it's pure BCI, cross, or what...)
There were some discussions about them over on KS, but I didn't have time to
read it all..
anyways, these are two pics of a male "leopard boa" that I saw at the San Mateo IRBA
show (I do not remember the vender's name...) They were selling a pair for 4-6K I think..
You can see the female curled up in the background in this one.. (and yes, those are salmon
boas underneath)




Just thought some would like to see these pics..

I may be picking up a rescue soon, male guyana that's in bad shape... looks like I may be
coming back with more questions soon! lol take care all
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	Boa Constrictor Imperator Boa Constrictor (Boa constrictor imperator). Most common is the Colombian Boa.

	Morph A morph is a color or pattern variation that is proven to be genetic. Common morphs include albino, anerythristic, gentically striped, Hypomelanistic, and many others. Morphs also include combinations of simple traits such as "Sunglow" which is Albino and Hypomelanistic. These traits may be recessive traits, co-dominant traits, dominant traits, or created through selective breeding (ie Pastel).

[Ed_r]

Looks like its got some Argentine Boa. Maybe an incubated Argie. [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_confused.gif[/img]
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[Vegetatoboaotaku]

No... no argy.... They come out of Mexico or some where there abouts... Pure CA Bci....
Nice pics though... [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
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	Boa Constrictor Imperator Boa Constrictor (Boa constrictor imperator). Most common is the Colombian Boa.

[najaboy]

Brief synopsis...

Pure Sonoran BCI

Breed a leopard to a leopard, and you get no leopard offspring. You do, however, get striped ofspring.
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	Boa Constrictor Imperator Boa Constrictor (Boa constrictor imperator). Most common is the Colombian Boa.

[Ophiophagus-hannah]

Jeez, imagine payin that kinda money and not getting leopard babies!?!
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[najaboy]

That's not to say that the leopard morph is not genetic. On the contrary, I believe that it is, although it does not follow the traditional rules of heritability.
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	Morph A morph is a color or pattern variation that is proven to be genetic. Common morphs include albino, anerythristic, gentically striped, Hypomelanistic, and many others. Morphs also include combinations of simple traits such as "Sunglow" which is Albino and Hypomelanistic. These traits may be recessive traits, co-dominant traits, dominant traits, or created through selective breeding (ie Pastel).

[Ritchie]

"breed a leopard to a leopard and you get striped"

Is it sort of like salmon to slamon and you get super salmon...

the leopard is the precursor t the striped....


can we preclude that the leopards are actually het for striped?
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	Heterozygous Heterozygous - the animal carries the gene for a genetic trait but does not outwardly demonstrate the trait. Example: A boa that is het for albino looks normal but carries the albino gene. When it is bred to another het for albino boa or an albino boa, a percentage of the offspring will be albino.

[najaboy]

Actually, the leopards were derived from normal-appearing boas. To the best of my knowlege, only a handful of people have produced this morph, also called "mephisto boa".

Striped is one of several abberancies produced by leopard boas. Hermann Stoekl had a reather informative post regarding leopard boas on kingsnake.com, but it seems to now be lost in the abyss- too old to be on the forum, but too new to be in the archives.

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	Morph A morph is a color or pattern variation that is proven to be genetic. Common morphs include albino, anerythristic, gentically striped, Hypomelanistic, and many others. Morphs also include combinations of simple traits such as "Sunglow" which is Albino and Hypomelanistic. These traits may be recessive traits, co-dominant traits, dominant traits, or created through selective breeding (ie Pastel).