Coloring/naming question

[balactm@jmu.edu]

I picked up a morph the other day and was wondering if anyone knew whether or not it was common, what the official name is, etc...
He is red tail in pattern, with speckling all over including the underside, with the shimmer from a rainbow. and, his tail isn't red, it's black. so if i had to name it myself, i would say a "black-tail, rainbow." anyone heard of it? unfortunately I don't have any good pictures right now, because my camera is broken.

[balactm@jmu.edu]

picture

[DarkComeSoon]

He/She looks like a anery boa

[balactm@jmu.edu]

sorry for being a noob , but...anery?

[Oxylepy]

Look it up on google

Anerythristic
Colour mutation characterized by a lack of yellow and red pigment.

Type ones seem to be whiter, while type 2s seem to be mostly a darker grey.

To the best of my knowledge that is the only way you can get a non-red tailed boa (although I've no knowledge on the subject )

[balactm@jmu.edu]

haha, i gotcha. and you can't really see the shimmer, but if you look close at his tail in person, you can see it better. is it even possible to breed a rainbow and a red tail?

[Oxylepy]

Epicrates cenchria - Rainbow Boa
Boa constrictor constrictor - Red Tailed Boa

They are different genera, let alone species. It would be highly difficult to breed the two together and any offspring would be hybrids.

And since they're hybrids then you'd have to worry about recharging them every couple hundred miles

[balactm@jmu.edu]

at the hybrid joke. well he definitely does shimmer in the right light...so is there any other way to get that characteristic other than with a rainbow?

[Sarin]

I think you are a bit confused...

The 'rainbow' on your snake you are seeing is called iridescence. Look it up and I think you'll understand it a bit more.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...1/ai_20013762/

[mainbutter]

Epicrates cenchria - Rainbow Boa
Boa constrictor constrictor - Red Tailed Boa

They are different genera, let alone species. It would be highly difficult to breed the two together and any offspring would be hybrids.

And since they're hybrids then you'd have to worry about recharging them every couple hundred miles

There have been many different pythonidae cross-genus hybrids. The ball x woma python and ball x carpet python, and I believe there have been some morelia x liasis breedings but I don't know what species.

I just thought it's an interesting counterpoint, some cross-genus hybrids are possible, especially in the world of snakes.