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The top pic is a North and the bottom is a South. They are both among the finest specimens I have seen from each. I have heard that the boas from South Brazil like the one shown may be reclassified as BCC while only the higher altitude ones near or in Bolivia are the true Amarali. Anybody know anything more about this? I want to keep both bloodlines pure but someday may have the interest to cross them to produce the best characteristics of both but do not necessarily want to do it if they are different subspecies.

Top pic is a North (one of the nicest BCC I have produced to date, very gold and pink) and the middle pic is a North (reduced pattern wanna be South and sibling to the North at the top) and the bottom pic is a South (very light yellow).

Mike,
Check out this link: http://www.boa-constrictors.com/com/com.html It's from the German website "boaconstictors.com". Hermann Stockl describes exactly what you're asking. If the link doesn't work, get to that website (do this by doing a google search for boaconstrictors.com since typing www.boaconstrictors.com will take you to the wrong site), click on "Amarali" and then click on "US Misinformation". The whole topic is covered here. It would also be interresting for us to get scale counts on the Amarali we both have.-----RON

Thanks Ron.

Very nice animals. N. Brazilians are one of my favorite Bcc.
Here's one of my males, showing a lot of N. Brazilian characteristics.

And a female with a very short, amarali like tail.

Those look true to me. A yellow boa. A whole lot less red and smaller fewer saddles on the South. Pink sides possible on both, but primarilly a yellow boa.
jsc

They are true N Brazilian. I just wanted to show those two because they demonstrate how much variance there can be in N Brazilians...even in the same litter.
I've always admired the N Brazilians, very beautiful boas.
Cheers, Bill