With the contention that "any light colored boa,(or any other species.)could be considered a T positive albino." while no clinical,or perhaps scientific tests have been conducted,that I'm aware of,to prove the identity of the anomoly to absolution,as being,in fact "tyrosinase positive albinism"...the condition,as it presents itself in boa constrictors,(there are currently three acknowledged strains.)has certain visually distinct characteristics that make it fairly difficult to ignore that they are,expressing some form of albinism,whether or not accepted by any scientific community,or faction thereof...because there may be slight differences in the causative biochemical anomoly at work in any one of these strains,they may look quite different from each other as adults,due in part to chemical changes brought on by aging,(hormonal,or ontogenetic biochemical changes.)...I feel that catagorizing these animals as T positive albinos is acceptably accurate based on the pupil pigment of juvinile examples,until some over-the-counter tyrosinase test kit is available at ones local drug store! (*lol*) the juvinile "eye test" will quickly weed out any wannabes,just my personal opinion...BTW the "extreme hypo Honduran milksnakes"(or whatever they're calling them these days.) are actually T pos. albinos,and NOT "hypos" at all! (IMHO,based on the pupil test.)
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