Oh contraire, they do hit the scale counts perfectly well and fit exactly into one of the already defined subspecies. For some strange reason many folks have a mental block and unwillingness to accept them for what they are. They do not fit into imperator scale count wise but are perfectly content to slide right in comfortably exactly where they belong. That is all Colombian Boas are, were, have been and always will be, where they fit perfectly as Boa Constrictor constrictor. Count the scales. That is what they are. The original descriptions do not define where BCC comes from specifically but what they are. Someone misguidedly decided long ago that because the Colombian Boas, whose urine would run someplace other than into the Amazon River, must be BCI and not BCC. That is not described anywhere in the original descriptions so it is irrelevant. Sure non-Amazon Basin Colombians are different from Surinams or Brazilians, but Peruvians are different from Surinams, yet they are still BCC. So unless you use some other measure to determine BCC from BCI, the original descriptions are clear and point to the fact that all Colombian Boas are BCC. That is unless someone defines them differently, scientifically, and it is accepted by the scientific community after exhaustive review. Until then, Colombians scale count wise, are BCC.

I have said this for years.

Of course the original Sharp Albino came from Colombia and the 3.1 Albinos that made up the original Kahl Albino bloodline came from Colombia. I had never heard anything to the contrary.
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