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I’m very enthusiastic to get into rosy boas. For a couple years now, I’ve had 1.2 San Diego Coastal Black & Blues from Larry at what was once American Desert Boas (what a great site!) and 1.1 “hypo” Anza Borrego Rosy Boa (Charina [Lichanura] trivirgata myriolepis) scientific name as described by VMS herp. Now they have a super hypo? but I digress.

Both of these have jagged stripping but I have seen Anza Borrego rosys for sale that have solid stripes and with various scientific names. It’s really leaching the enthusiasm out of it if I can’t at the least inform my fellow rosy fans of what I really have. Ideally, I would love to throw money that I don’t really have at these hypos and anery borregos but I heard out that all the anery borrego’s were used to make snows by crossing with whitewaters and the hypos from different sources have different stripping patterns.
As for the San Diego Coastal Black & Blues are they Charina [Lichanura] trivirgata roseofusca)? Can someone tell me what these are closely related to. I think they are a unicolor locale variant that was inbred to heighten the bluish color? Don’t see many of these advertised for sale or anything that looks quite as good as they do. They almost look anery. Are there any anery unicolors?

Sorry for the long post and random rants. I’m really in the dark here and I’ve read the forums. If anyone can point me to certain threads that would be great. I’m sure it’s all been discussed before.

You can still find Black and Blues in the wild. Not sure if (probably has happened at least in the past) if they had been crossed with other localities to darken up the black and blues. There are areas in San Diego that you can find Black and Blues Unicolors, Silverish Unicolors,burnt Orange Unicolors and bright Orange ALL in the wild. The Unicolors pretty much start in San Diego and accross the otherside of the mountains into TJ and other areas further south.
As far as WHAT you have it depends on which paper you follow. The newest paper out on Rosys says that those Unicolor Rosy are a seperate species from the other rosy boas in san Diego. Personally I find that hard to swallow since some areas you can find both unicolors and some with the typical striping. As far as what MOST consider RIGHT NOW is that in California we have 2 Sub-Species of Rosy, Lichanura trivirgata roseofusca-Coastal Rosy Boa and Lichanura trivirgata gracia-Desert Rosy Boa. That may change at some point though.Do some more research into the Locality of Rosy Boas and you will see many different localities that exist in California and Mexico. You can learn exactly where your Black and Blues came from down in San Diego. If you shoot me an email I can help you out with more info for you to look through. Rich
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