Geographical location for morphs?

[Piebald Dave3]

Hey everyone,

I am wondering if certain morphs have only been found in only certain geographical locations in Africa? Like do Piebalds come from a certain area in Ghana, or maybe Lessers from Bonin...etc.....

This is probably information most of us aren't privey (sp) to but if someone knows I think it would cool information.

Dave

[snake lab]

Im sure there is some places in ghana, togo, benin, that hold a higher percentage of different things but im also sure we in the states wont know exactly what and where.

[TessadasExotics]

Yes they do. I can't remember what comes from what locations but that is the case. I believe there was a post here by PE before that told where some of them come from. Pieds usually come from one area, Pastels from another Albinos another and so on. They can be in multiple areas and have different variants. Like Enchi's mostly come from the area of Enchi.

[Piebald Dave3]

yeah, I knew about the enchi and thats what got me wondering about other morphs.

You don't ahppen to have a link to the PE info do you?

Thanks
Dave

[duyeda]

This is a cool thread, too bad noone will post info about it.

[Reakt20]

this is all i could find when i did a search..
http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...y-Ball-Pythons

[babyknees]

When I saw this thread it reminded me of this:

Sub sahara's are a giant locality of ball. They are only found in the one region of northern Ghana.

Most of your commonly imported morphs could all be considered locality animals too.

All yellow bellies are found in a certain locality in that country.
All pieds have been collected in a small locality of Ghana.
All lavender albino's are collected in one area of Benin
Ghost are all found in the same locality "pocket" as they call it.

Pastels are found in a small belt way that runs acrossed the 3 countries, (Ghana, Benin, Togo) .

These could all be considered localities of balls as due to inbreeding in the wild ,the mutant genes are spread in the area they were created in, so that area is where the animals stay and breed spreading the gene, becoming a locality specific animal.

That is why we have gotten 10 c.h/w.c ghost in a 5 month time frame, and have gotten 15-20 yellow bellies c.h / w.c in a 6-8 month time frame, as they are all collected and exported from the same locality.

There is a lot of work to be done on wild populations of balls.

Here's the thread: http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...y-Ball-Pythons

Argh! You beat me.