You overall point is not wrong, but your logic in reaching it is flawed. It's CERTAIN that a boa from Suriname has ancestors elsewhere. It's also certain that a kingsnake from Pennsylvania and a boa from Suriname have common ancestors who were fish living in the ocean. This does not make them the same species.

What makes the Suri/Guyana distinction dubious has nothing to do with common ancestry. It's the fact that people breeding either one usually don't know for sure where their stock was collected.

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• BCC can swin and................ - SurinameMan, Thu Feb 17 21:50:37 2005
• RE: BCC can swin and................ - PBM, Thu Feb 17 22:03:06 2005
• RE: BCC can swin and................ - SurinameMan, Thu Feb 17 22:14:00 2005
• RE: I own none, sorry.........more - PBM, Thu Feb 17 22:41:42 2005
• RE: BCC can swin and................ - SurinameMan, Thu Feb 17 22:04:40 2005
• Poor reasoning - mci, Thu Feb 17 23:26:23 2005
• What I'm saying - mci, Thu Feb 17 23:33:10 2005
• In fairness.. - craig k., Fri Feb 18 12:31:15 2005