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RE: Take a Look At This Snake Found in NJ

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Posted by: DMong at Thu Aug 2 21:47:02 2012  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DMong ]  
   

It's a very poor far away pic for extremely accurate identification, but it isn't a typical "albino" (amelanistic) Burmese for sure. If it were it would be pure white and VERY bright lemon yellow. I see all sorts of brown pigment on the snake, even from this distance. Looks to be a fairly thin hypomelanistic(reduced melanin) Burmese python to me.

The story has all sorts of ridiculous nonsense in it, just as ALL stories regarding snakes do. I just saw an ad for a hypo Burmese that is a hypo 66% het albino 50% green burmese 2 females available both will come with paperwork.

£300 each 300 British Pound(s) = 466.128 US Dollar(s)

Now of course this pic is of a baby hypo Burmese, but that snake most definitely looks to be the same Burmese morph (hypomelanistic), just a bit more mature is all. I deal with countless snake morphs and genetic terms all day long, and I know exactly what they mean and how it accurately applies to what phenotype (outward visual look). It could possibly have some additional type of multi-morph factors involved, but from that distance it is just too hard to say with any certainty. But I seriously doubt those people would know ANY OF THIS!

First off, you can hardly GIVE an albino (amelanistic) Burmese python away now days, much less the ridiculous thousands they are talking about. Albino Burms are as common as rocks and have been around for decades and in almost every pet store around the globe. The hypo and some of the other color/pattern mutations are a bit different though depending on what they are, and how long they have been in the hobby mainstream.

In any case, that has to be a hypomelanistic (reduced dark pigment..i.e. melanin) just as in this photo. The one mutation by itself is hundreds, not $8,000...



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