BCC vs BCI

[cassandra]

So pet stores selling columbian boa's are probably columbian BCI's? Columbian is a subspecies for BCC and BCI, so...

Probably...the only real way to tell is to look at the animal (and to have some experience telling the difference). One, albeit non-definitive, clue is the shape of the saddles; generally speaking, BCC will have "peaks", BCI will not. But as Lawrence said with cross breeding and so many places boas come from, it's definitely not a hard and fast rule. The more experience you have looking at boas, you'll get a better idea of which general species you are looking at. =)

Also, Suriname and Guyana were found to be the same through genetic testing, I thought.

Yeah but when did science ever stop a good argument?!