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Greetings All,

Below pictures are two bloodlines of 100% pure Indian Pythons were keep. Two are from Molorusx3 showing the Southern India form, light colored blotches with bright pink/orange heads. The other pair is directly from the adults on display at the San Deigo Zoo, these are Light Phase Pakistan animals.....range difference between the two populatins in about 1,300 miles. Both pairs of pythons are held under a USDI CBW Permit.

Pictured are Southern India animals.

Truly,

Paul Bodnar
Crocodile Wildlife Conservationist

I just got an excellent male here locally and am going to aquire a CBW like we have for radiata. I'm pretty sure I produced some of the breeders at San Diego...I guess I need to hurry up in case the injurious wildlife thing goes into effect. I wish I had never got rid of my original stock. I bred them consistantly for over 20 years..Great looking critters
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Tom Crutchfield
www.tomcrutchfield.com

Hi Tom,

Thank you for the reply, amazing how beautiful pure Indian Pythons are, a classic! No morphs or hybrids can compare with a naturally occuring (Python m. molurus)

I think you are correct, San Diego bloodlines were connected with you, in the past.

Truly,

Paul Bodnar
Crocodile Wildlife Conservation

pure P. m. molurus are incredible beautiful. Those Indians you have are definitely nice. I spent years looking to obtain these pure Sri Lanka molurus. I was able to produce a clutch a couple of years ago. You are correct in that the farther north you go in their range the darker they become, the southern India forms are without a doubt lighter in coloration. Obviously a thermal adaptation to higher latitudes. It also appears that the patterns become less irregular in the northern forms as well. The arrow marking on the head typically fades farther back toward the neck as you move south in their range as well. You can see this most dramatically in the vast majority of Sri Lanka molurus where it typically completely fades in pure adult specimens. Most hatchling mainland molurus molurus have almost full arrows on the head at birth, but it is more reduced in pure hatchling Sri Lanka molurus. Below are one of my adult females, sub-adult photo, and one of the hatchlings.

Kelly

Hello Kelly,

Thank you for your reply, can you email me off the forum: Crocodile52@msn.com I would like to talk.

Thankyou.

Paul Bodnar
Crocodile Wildlife Conservationist

I have had Pure Sri Lankan Pythons and they are one animal I may end up keeping in the future. There are a few people still breeding them in FL so I still have access to them. Beautiful, alert animals! Nice Indians as well!
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John Light

Such beautiful snakes, I would love to get my hands on a couple