Quote Originally Posted by jmcrook View Post
They aren't really a dwarf form of BCC/BC/True Red Tail. They just don't get quite as large as other localities of BCC/BC/True Red Tails on average. As for Nicaraguan Boas, they aren't considered red tails and are a completely different species, Boa imperator. Though other species/subspecies of boas can have some degree of redness to their tails only Boa constrictor/Boa constrictor constrictor are considered True Red Tails.
this sounds the same as P. b. progschai - at present both mainland and dwarf island burms are considered to be the same species and are the subject of “insular dwarfism” or you could say, “locality dwarfism” i.e. that it is because the Java, Bali, Sulawesi, etc islands are so small, with decreased access to prey stock, which caused this “dwarfism” rather than “genetic dwarfism” or a different species being temporarily categorized under X species - i may have been confusing in my last post my apologies