I don't think anyone doubts that if you took a selection of boas from Suriname and a bunch from Guyana that there would on the average be some slight differences in appearance between them. But that doesn't mean the distinction that is made in the hobby has any real meaning.



First of all, why segregate based on country which is, obviously, biologically meaningless? Why is it wrong to breed an animal from Suriname with one from Guyana but OK to breed one from northern Suriname with one from southern Suriname? Only because we typically don't know whether an animal is from northern or southern Suriname. But in fact we usually don't know whether an animal is from Suriname or Guyana either, even in cases where we think we do.



It's the arbitrariness and simple-mindedness of basing the distinction on a political boundary, combined with the unreliability of most locality information that makes me, and a lot of others, question whether the distinction is worth making.

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