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Hey guys,

Have posted this on the amazon forum too so i'm sorry if its the second time you're having to read it!!

Was wondering if anyone knew of a certain way to tell between hortulanus and cookii?? i know they're very closely related i.e. may even be the same species. but just thought there might be some sort of morphological difference, scale counts or something?? sorry if this is a question that has a really obvious answer, i'm new to tree boas, love em already tho!!

thanks for your time, any replies would be greatly appreciated

cat

Scale count is the best way.

Actually, there haven't been any true Cook's brought into the country in a long long time. Anything you'll find for sale will be Amazons...YES, even the ones labeled as Cook's.
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ok cool, you wouldnt happen to know the scale count would you??

i'm in the UK and there seems to be a few cooks floating around, but i guess they could be mislabelled. just trying to figure out if i've picked up a cooks mislabelled as hortulanus, or whether the one still in the shop is a hortunlanus mislabelled as a cooks, they look pretty much identical, will try to post a pic when i can figure out how!!

thanks again

cat