Quote Originally Posted by JoshSloane View Post
Keep in mind that just because a breeder declares the locality of a boa to be such, doesnt mean it is even near correct. Even if it is a true line bred animal, and the breeder himself had the first captive generation, there is still a major shadow of a doubt as to the true origins. Importation of boas from CA, and SA is sloppy at best. We see this all the time with BCCs. Those supposedly from Ghana are actually from Suriname and vice versa. Often populations are mixed together and a tag is just slapped on the crate before it reaches our shores. Personally I would rather go by what I see, and the traits I can distinguish, rather than what some breeder told me, even if they had the best intentions.
Trust me I know. I have quite a few other exotics, the type that are far less defined as a hobby and many cases the taxonomy is unknown, unlike our snakes. We have specimens where all we know is the locality (assuming the paper work is accurate!!) and we never know the species in those cases, if we are lucky the genus. In some cases we have specimens where not even the genus is known, in fact, all we know is that it's an animal basically. No taxonomy at all.