I own a pair of dwarf burms with the male about 4' and female 5'. they are 3 years old. i was wondering if we should actually be calling them burms and breeding them into burm lines? my dwarf burms certainly don't act like normal burms. my male is very aggressive, the female pretty aggressive but slightly more tractable. their eyes and nostrils are placed slightly differently. they are placed more along the lines of where a more ambush ground dwelling leaf litter species would have theirs. in addition their patterns are similar to but different than a burmese. no closer in my opinion than any of the molurus sub-species. i'm wondering if we're diluting the blood-lines by crossing them over? again since these afaik exist only in the pet trade and not to science it would be great if we could get some kind of taxonomical classification and then ask the question again as to wheteher or not should be cross breeding these making albinos. again afaik we aren't breeding albino and green burms into indian pythons and ceylonese pythons and calling them as such, which would be what we're doing to the dwarf burms. just my 2cents

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• dwarf burm taxonomy? - pboyle69, Mon May 7 01:33:52 2007
• RE: dwarf burm taxonomy? - Just_Ders, Mon May 7 13:10:07 2007
• RE: dwarf burm taxonomy? - ballroom, Wed May 9 16:51:55 2007
• RE: dwarf burm taxonomy? - JoshHutto, Tue May 15 23:29:15 2007