Quote Originally Posted by Wretched Deviant View Post
It would make sense and be a loophole for keepers of the snakes but at the same time I think it's not very likely to happen, they don't classify miniature, toys, and teacup dogs (no, I don't believe they're real dogs but more deformed and underdeveloped) as a different taxonomic group than normal dogs of that species (or at least, if they do, I'm not aware of it) so why would they change the taxonomic group for snakes? Unless you can track down enough taxonomists that would support this I'm very doubtful that it would happen but...it's possible.
except all dogs are canis familiaris (i cant spell this :/ sorry) and are not naturally occurring, they were selectively bred. There are subspecies of wolves after the grey wolf (canius lupus) the mexican wolf, the red wolf, etc.

Dwarf retics and the locality boas are naturally occurring animals that differ from their larger counterparts in more than just size. Most of the locality boas i know have very specific scale counts that set them off from BCC/BCI. We didn't breed them for that, they came that way already. There are other snakes that have locality and specific species differences (think about kings and greybands).

I think there is definitely a case for reclassification, but theres a lot of stuff that needs to be done in the interim methinks.