Re: A couple more new boa clutches and some after shed pics:
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theReptileGuy
You have quite a few species of reptiles judging from your posts! lol.
Nice looking babies, would those be considered Sunglows or regular albinos? I'm not really fluent with boa morphs.
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Originally Posted by
DrDooLittle
Nice boas!!! Whether those are albino or sunglow, I would take either of them, they are beautiful. I'm not positive how to tell the difference either.
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These litters had albinos, albino jungles, sunglows, sunglow jungles and potentially super sunglows and super sunglow jungles.
The sunglows have more intense color and a more reduced pattern than you see on the tyipcal albinos.
Re: A couple more new boa clutches and some after shed pics:
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Originally Posted by
meowmeowkazoo
Is that a paradox spot? :D
I did have a paradox jungle and a paradox looking super hypo, but I didn't show them in these pics. The spot on the one sunglow jungle was to mark which ones were being shipped out in an order.
Re: A couple more new boa clutches and some after shed pics:
squeeee so many babies :gj: awesome!
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Congrats on the litters...
But in boas we call them litters clutches refer to eggs:oops:
Re: A couple more new boa clutches and some after shed pics:
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boakid
Congrats on the litters...
But in boas we call them litters clutches refer to eggs:oops:
Convention does state that "litter" is used for live bearing reptiles. Except that term is typically (originally?) used for mammals and though rudimentary placentas exist in some reptiles, they're not thought to be homologous to the mammalian placenta making the use of the term "litter" a layperson term arbitrarily used for live bearing animals. If we want to give it a phylogenetic context and use similar terms to convey homologous structures then perhaps a new term should be used for the viviparous reptiles. But since it seems that live birth has evolved multiple times throughout the squamates we'd need a new term for each occurrence. Or perhaps use a term that people will understand even if it makes no sense in a phylogenetic context. That said any term to convey a large mass of neonates were excreted from the cloaca of this boa would work: brood, litter, or clutch (A definition for clutch is a bunch or group. Commonly it used for a group of eggs incubated at one time regardless of whether that incubation is external or internal). :)
So using them interchangeably isn't going to set a chain of events that lead to the destruction of society as we know it. Perhaps with the next set of pictures I'll use the term brood. Or exclaim that amniotic fluid and neonates were spilled throughout the cage. :)
Re: A couple more new boa clutches and some after shed pics:
Nice babies!
Congrats on the litters!
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Wow that looks like a huge mess :oops: But the babies really are very beautiful :)
