I posted this question on another board, and nobody could answer it.
But I am a bit confused. I have been collecting boas for about 15 years now. A long time ago there was a morph called Leucistic. I was just wondering if this is the same as what today people call "SNOW". If someone could clear this up for me.
Thank you,
JoeP
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Leucistic
JOEP123
Sep 28, 2005 05:39 PM
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whitneywee
Sep 28, 2005 06:00 PM
They are different. Snow is a double homozygous for anerythristic and amelanistic. Amelanistic is albino, takes away black (melanin). Anerythristic takes away red. Both at the same time gives snow which is pretty white, but not completely. Leucistic is it's own recessive trait which gives a totally white snake with dark eyes (not albino). I don't think there's been a leucistic boa constrictor, I might be wrong. There's leucistic ball pythons, texas rat snakes, burmese python, hognose snake, and I don't know what all else. Mark
