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

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