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Hello, I'm just wondering about the different morphs I've been seein on the classifides. What looks like a ghost to me is labeled as a snow, there are albinos, paradox albinos, dodomas, flames, and I'm generally confused. Thank you for any help you can give me.

True Kenyan morphs include Axanthic, Paradox Albino, and Paradox Snow.
The Egyptian Albino was bred to Kenyans leading to the Albino and Snow morphs.

There is also the Flame, a natural locality morph that has been bred into other lines.

Key point, Egyptians and Kenyans are not separate species or subspecies. Egyptian sand boas are, in most cases, simply yellow KSB's. An East African sand boa from Egypt is simply some Egyptian locality Kenyan sand boa. Even so, there have been wild caught KSB's from places outside of Egypt.

Axanthism and anerythrism in KSB's both refer to the same mutation that leads to a black and white KSB.

Albino leads to KSB's ranging in shades of oranges, whites, yellows, and sometimes dark enough to be considered brown.

Paradox albinos began from a wild caught specimen from Dodoma. They resemble albinos, except they have random black spots.

Snows/paradox snow. A regular snow is the homogeneous mix of the anery/axanthic mutation with the albino mutation. Paradox snow is the homogeneous mix of anery/axanthic mutation with the paradox albino mutation.

"Flame", "Dodoma", and "Dodoma Flame" all refer to KSB's in an isolated population near Dodoma Tanzania. They are noted for being brightly colored, having less brown, and retaining a clean pattern. The genetics behind this is unknown, it's probably not from one or two simple recessive traits, and most likely what would be described as selective breeding... just in the wild because of isolation.

There are many other mutations floating around out there, namely the rufescen related morphs. The rufescen sand boas are a solid dark brown, while the rufescen mixed with normal KSB litters have many variations, such as tigers, granites, and stripes.
Other unproven (to my knowledge) include some hypo projects, as well as piedbald animals.

If you have anymore questions, you can shoot me an e-mail as I don't check the sub forum very often. (For future questions, you should post on the main forum, as most of the regulars spend most of their time their. You'll get a lot more responses in a more timely fashion.)

I may need a taxonomy update, because I know how reclassification & giving animals new scientific names are constintly being changed.
I always thought the Egyptian SB was Eryx colubrinus colubrinus & the Kenyan SB was Eryx colubrinus loveridgei. Different subspiecies.

Thank you so much to both of you, and sorry for not replying sooner. My internet has been out for a while. This has been very helpful, though. I do have one more question. A snow is anery/axanthic and albino, but I've seen snows with dark eyes. Don't albinos have light eyes?