Many Different Types Of Boa Constrictors Locality Boas and Boa Morph

BOAS

There are many different forms of Boa Constrictors.

 

        There are many different forms of Boa Constrictors.There are what is referred to as Locality Boas and Boa Morphs.Locality Boas are Boas that originate in a specific geographic area.To name a few Colombian Boas often referred to as redtail Boas.Pervian,Tumbes Peruvian Longicauda,Boa Ortinii ,all three types Boas of peru. Bolivian, Surinam , Guynan,Argentine, North Brazilian ,South Brazilian Boas all of South America.Then Central America has Nicaraguan,Costa Rican,EL Salvadoran,Belize, Hondruan  Boas.Plus Island Boas are considered Central American like Hogg Island & Corn Isle Boas to name just a couple.Then there are the Morph Boas .Like Albino Boas,Hypo Boas Anery Boas,Motley Boas,Arabesque Boas Ghost Boas,Snow Boas,Sunglow Boas,Pastel Boas.The list continues although most of the Morph Boas are man made Morphs Morphs.Only a few originate from the wild,Like Anery short for Anerthristic Boa silver and Black lacking red pigment.Article compliments of: J. McCullah ,from Kingsnake.com.All short articles taken from Kingsnake.com

ANERYTHRISTIC BOA

TYPE I

Unfortunately the history of this beautiful morph is not well documented. Anerythristic boas are imported to U.S.on a regular basis. There have also been anerythristic boas pop out in normal to normal breedings. Current speculation is that several strains of the Type I anerythristic exist. There is some evidence to back this up. There are at least two color variants, a brownish variant and a silver variant. Never the less these "Black Albinos" are key ingredients to many of the man-made morphs being created today. I know you might be asking yourself..."Black Albinos?" In simple terms that is exactly what anerythristics are, their pigment make-up is opposite to the albino boa. Albinos lack melanin which is black pigment, on the other hand anerythristics lack erythrin which is red pigment. These beautiful snakes are being used to create many designer boas, such as Snow Boas and Ghost Boas. This trait has been shown to be simple recessive.

TYPE II Anerythristic

Similar Anery from Central America

Hypo Boas,short for Hypomelanistic,lacking melanin to a degree.Aritcle from Kingsnake .com, by compliments of: J. McCullah:

 HYPO-MELANISTIC BOA

To the best of the authors knowledge, the first hypo-melanistic boas came into the country from Panama. These boas where referred to as Orange-tails, because of the intense orange on their tail blotches. As a result of both line-breeding and out-breeding to lighter common Colombian boas, several phases have been established. Salmon phase hypos tend to have a darker rose-like pigmentation. Super Salmons, which are a product of breeding a salmon to a salmon, tend to be very light in overall color with very little black scaling. While hypo-melanistic boas lack black pigment they are not albinos. They lack melanin to certain degrees. There are hypo-melanistic boas born with nearly no black scaling but they still carry the black pigment. This trait has been proven co-dominant.
 ALBINO BOA

ORIGINAL STRAIN

    In 1983 Four newborn albino boas were, imported from Colombia. The group consisted of three males and one female. Over the next six years the boas grew to sexual maturity. The owners were unable to get the boas to successfully reproduce, which resulted in their decision to sell one of the males. This single adult male albino boa was bought by Peter Kahl Baltimore,MD.

    Peter paid $25,000.00, at which time was probably the largest amount ever paid for a single snake. Pete acquired six female Colombian boas and quarantined them from the male. In November of 1989 the seven animals were placed together. During December and January, the albino male repeatedly bred each female. In June of 1990 two of the six females produced babies. These babies were the first heterozygousfor albinos ever produced. As a result of heavy feedings, the babies were nearly six foot in length within one year. Due to their size Peter decided to put a group together for the 91' breeding season. The decision paid off. In June of 1992 the first captive born albino boas were produced. The litter consisted of 22 babies, three of which were albino.

CORAL PHASE 

The coral albino boa is one that has appeared in several litters of the
original strain of albino boa. I have only produced a few coral albino
boas in the past four years and this season have bred two coral albinos
with each other. These are one of the most colorful of the albino boas I
have ever seen. It should be interesting to see how the offspring turn
out from this breeding. The litter shouldbe born in June 2000.

   

Article compliments of: Pete Kahl 

PARADOX

    If an animal has characteristics of an amelanistic albino but also has splashes of pitch-black pigmentation, then what is it? That is the nature of the paradox by this new boa constrictor morph produced by Vision Herpetological. Obviously there is a great deal yet to be learned about the genetics of pigmentation in snakes.
    The history of the "Paradox" boa constrictor is worth elaborating on because it shows the kinds of
reproductive experiments that can lead to new "designer" snakes. The sire of the "Paradox" boa is a
hybrid Suriname red-tail boa x Colombian boa heterozygous for albinism(Boa constrictor constrictor
x B. c. imperator). The sire was bred with two sibling female Colombian common boas (B. c. imperator) that were heterozygous for albinism.
    One female produced a litter of 16 babies, four of which ere albino. The other had a litter of 18 babies of which six were albino. Each female produced one "Paradox" boa constrictor. This suggests that a combination of two different recessive genes may be required for the expression of this trait. By raising these two female "Paradox" boas to sexual maturity and back crossing them to their father, it is hoped that the genetics of this new boa constrictor morph will be elucidated and this new morph will be established in herpetoculture

Article and Photos compliments of: David A. Northcott

Albino Boas probably the most well known Morph in general.The Albino Boa is a Tyronase negative Albino.Of which there are two strains .The original or Kahl strain and the Sharp Strain.The two strains are incompatible.

TYRONASE POSITIVE ABINO

           T+ Albino

A Lesser known type of Albino Boa is the T+ Albino Caramel Albino Boa.T positive stands for Tyronase positive Albino.The other original Albino Strains are all T- Albino Boas.Of which two strains are known to exist.Colombian Strain originating with VPI Reptiles .The other being Central American strain from Nicaragua.Imported by Ben Seigel and owned by Tom Burke.Both strains are very beautiful but unique in there appearance and origins.

 

 ARABESQUE BOA

is another beautiful pattern anomily. Article:Article compliments of: Chris Romine and Steve Hammond

This morph was first produced by Steve Hammond of Exceptional Exotics in 1989.  In 1993 the trait was proven genetic by Steve Hammond when he produced a litter that included sixteen arabesque.  In 1997 Steve Hammond discovered that the morph was co-dominant when he bred it into his "Sunburst" line, which was totally unrelated to the original arabesque bloodline.  The following year Peter Kahl bred and arabesque female to an albino male, the result being nearly half of the babies exhibiting the arabesque trait, making them heterozygous for albinism.  The original arabesque line shows hyper-melanistic (increased melanin) traits.  There is typically intense black speckling throughout the body, the belly is strongly marked in black as well as the head and the tail blotches are black.  The linear pattern is typically connected by narrow saddles.  The ground color is generally a light cocoa with a highly contrasting dark pattern.  Steve Hammond has also produced a line of arabesque boas known as "sunburst" arabesque that have little to no black speckling and intense orange, pink and gold hues.  In the very near future we should also see "albino arabesques".

MOTLEY BOA

Article compliments of: Jeremy Stone

The Motley Boa is a new Genetic pattern mutation of the Boa.  It is a fusion of dorsal striping with no side pattern, and  pin five stripes. It has circles on the back as apposed to the common squares or diamonds.  Motleys show more of a lavender/silver color as opposed to the common brown boas that we see from Columbia.  The Motley is a Columbian boa imported as a baby in 94.  A Florida Breeder picked it up and named it the Motley Boa because it strongly resembles the Motley cornsnake in pattern.  Having a hunch it was genetic, he bred it to a normal female common Boa.  She gave birth to 12 babies.  Of the 12 babies, 6 were Motley, and the other 6 were normal.  Three of the Motley boas were dead in the sac, and two of the other three died shortly after birth.  That leaves us with one baby and the original father who has not produced offspring to this date since.  Both Motley boas are males, and have been breeding heavy for this 2000 season, some females are gravid and hopefully baby Motleys are on the way.  There are many interesting possibilities with this new gene.  We can get ghost, snow, and sunglow Motleys.  We can also get SUPER MOTLEYS and Albino Motleys which will be a true striped albino. The list goes on and on. 

JUNGLE BOA

Article compliments of: Peter Kahl

The Jungle Boa originated in Sweden from the breeding of a aberrant patterned boa. This boa was bred back to one of it's offspring and Jungle Boas were born for the first time along with some odd patterned boas and some normal looking babies. We are not sure what will come from Jungle to Jungle breeding but we do know if you breed the odd patterned babies you will get a percentage of Jungle Boas, odd striped, and normal looking boas. I'm not sure what you would get from thenormallooking siblings. We hope to know more this summer. I have included some photos of Jungles and the odd patterned heteros for you to enjoy.

That Swedish Line I'm certain originated with Man named Brendle.The Brendle Swedish Line are the only true Jungle Boas.Any other Aberrant Boa is just that that an Aberrant Boa.Not to say there are not some excellent Looking aberrncies out there.