With cinnys and black pastels you can tell the difference quick if they are quality lines. In a good quality black the black colors are distinct and the lighter colors are more pronounced as well. But both morphs are real similar in what the outcome is when ya breed them. For example if you breed cinny to cinny the super is the black snake, you can also achieve this by breeding a black to black or a cinny to black. The cinny gene has a weak link in it somewhere that sometimes causes tail kinking so in my oppinion if ya want the super id do it with black to black or cinny to black. Now when ya get into the more subtle morphs like the spotnose, sable, and others like em it gets a little harder cause there are alot of animals that come in from the wild or normals produced in captivity that look alot similar. When dealing with subtle morphs its best to deal with breeders that produce these animals regurlarlly and can be trusted so ya know what your getting. Yellowbellies are another hard one. Although alot of them can be identified by the typical shatter pattern aka checkerboard markings on the belly sides some do not have this at all. I bred an ivory to a normal and to a couple yellowbellies and the babies from the ivory to normal all came out with no shatter pattern. Obviouslly this made the offspring hard to sell but all the offspring are true yellowbellies cause an ivory was used to produce them. Last year i used a male oit of that breeding and bred it back to a yellowbelly and hit the ivory so yes it is confusing to wrap your head around ball genetics