Reptile & Amphibian Forums

Subspecies status? I know back in the day there was a few (Example- Boa Contrictor Mexicana) My wife and I where discussing how so many other species (Example- Carpet Pythons from Australia) have thier own subspecies status, I personally feel that there are enough differences in the different locals to warrant subspecies status, but I was curious why they are all just lumped together? Species like the Pearl Island (Boa Contrictor Sabogea)Have thier own subspecies name....Just curious what others thought of the topic.

Below are just some examples of BCI, I could totally see each one of them being thier own subspecies...They are all so different, I wonder what it takes to become a Subspecies?

-----
Executive Reptiles
Amanda Kingsbury & David Kendrick
www.executivereptiles.com

doesn't warrent species or subspecies statis. It should also be noted that Hog Islands were never classified as imperator, no subspecies label was given to them.

Think of each locale as a different race of the same species.

While I do think that the Boa constrictor complex is not well classified, I do not feel that each locale phenotype deserves its own status. My main defense to maintain purity of bloodlines. I don't see anything wrong with integrades or hybrids, but pure stock should be maintained in captivity for every locale possible.

To be honest, its either because scientific culture or no one working on it.

Check out http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/~uetz/LivingReptiles.html to see the latest Boa classification. By the way, Boa constrictor was named by Linnaeus back in 1758. imperator was named a subspecies in 1803, I dont see any info on whether some one has looked are BCI variation to name them as different subspecies. No one works on them, they go nameless.

Best,
Vinny
-----
“There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that whilst this planet has gone on cycling according to the fixed laws of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” -C. Darwin, 1859

Natural Selection Reptiles

To busy working on more important rhetoric for the tree huggers and other worthless ventures that consume vast amounts of support funds.Compounding the issue is the ever present Pollitical Correctnees BS that jacks every issue into stagnation.

Let someone else do it !!! Yeah....thats the ticket !!

M/

>>To be honest, its either because scientific culture or no one working on it.
>>
>>Check out http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/~uetz/LivingReptiles.html to see the latest Boa classification. By the way, Boa constrictor was named by Linnaeus back in 1758. imperator was named a subspecies in 1803, I dont see any info on whether some one has looked are BCI variation to name them as different subspecies. No one works on them, they go nameless.
>>
>>Best,
>>Vinny
>>-----
>>“There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that whilst this planet has gone on cycling according to the fixed laws of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” -C. Darwin, 1859
>>
>> Natural Selection Reptiles

lol

just try to get funding from NSF to work on latin american snake classification.
-----
“There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that whilst this planet has gone on cycling according to the fixed laws of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” -C. Darwin, 1859

Natural Selection Reptiles