Hybrid and integrade ?

[mustang91302]

I bred a black blood python to a red blood python and was told it was an intergrade snake not a hybrid. Is there really any difference in an integrade and a hybrid?

[3skulls]

I know nothing of Bloods but this is how I look at it.

Intergrade - Something that would happen naturally in the wild between species. Different subspecies of the same species that would share territory.


Cross - 2 subspecies of the same genus / species that wouldn't see each other in the wild.


Hybrid - Ball Python x Burm, Carpet x GTP, Kingsnake x Corn etc.

Not sure if this is really right but that's how I have always looked at it.

[mustang91302]

That makes alot more sense then what i was told

[Bluebonnet Herp]

Saying they're integrades is going off the former fact that they were considered subspecies. However, since each of the short tailed pythons were given species status more recently, they are, indeed, hybrids.