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was asked to take more pics. is she crossed?

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You've got a really nice snake there. Adam

Can't be certain, but she does have traits from both subspecies. (Colombian imperator and Peruvian constrictor)

Colombian imperator and Peeruvian constrictor are not subspecies.

Imperator and constrictor are both subspecies of Boa constrictor. B.c.imperator and B.c.constrictor. I just added the locality type to more clearly state what they were. Not saying Peruvians or Colombians are subspecies, I'm saying imperator and constrictor are subspecies, Colombian and Peruvian are the locality types in question for each of the respective subspecies. Given the variability among locales of constrictor and imperator I thought it was needed. A Brazilian BCC X Crawl Cay BCI is still a BCI X BCC (constrictor X imperator) but they would look a heck of a lot different.

It just sounded funny put that way

Honestly I was wondering how that looked when I wrote it, lol.

So thanks for your post it forced me to clearify my statement.

Dang this forum really needs an edit feature.

Crosses can looks exactly like EITHER parent or ANY where in between. Therefore it is impossible to tell if it is a cross or not from looking at it.

Well we can't count scales in a photo, but we can count dorsal saddles. Peru is home to BCL, BCOr, and BCC. Columbia BCC and BCI. I'm counting 19 saddles to the vent. That doesn't fit BCI or BCOr. It's the min. for BCL, but it fits BCC just right and BCC is from both of these countries.

That means nothing, a cross from a BCI and BCC could have exactly the same amount as either parent

Woundn't one be dominant?