Some questions about the Limburg amels and anerys...



I cannot seem to get straight locality information on these animals to save my life. Since Limburg is not actually a place, but a person, I think it is very easy to get confused and over look the actual locality. I have heard Temecula, Winchester, and Hemet all cited as the locality for these Boas. It cannot be all of them now can it? It is my understanding that the original Coastal Amel was discovered in Near Vail Lake. Ok, if that is the case, then was it just bred to animals from the surrounding areas like Hemet and Temecula? It is my understanding that it has. If this is true then how can it be called a local pure animal (especially when we are splitting hairs over in Whitewater with Morongo and Verbenia)? Vail lake is 15 miles from Hemet, and 10 miles from Temecula, and Temecula is 20 miles from Hemet, and that is all supposed to be one local? Yet the Verbenia exit is 1 mile from the Whitewater exit, and they boarder each other with no natural or artificial barrier, and the same is true with Morongo, which sits right at Whitewater's northern edge. So how is it that the coastal albinos are considered local if their local seems to keep changing? It seems to me that they are a taxonomically pure coastal amel Rosy Boa, but not local.



Now can anyone actually tell me where the original Limburg anery was found? I have been told Temecula, but according to ads that I am seeing it is from Hemet, but then the ad says that the Limburg amels are from Hemet as well. Isn't that just a little too convenient? Why can't we ever get a straight answer about the localities on these animals? Something has to give. It seems to me that the facts seem to keep changing in order to please popular opinion. In addition, how are the double hets from these animals supposed to be pure local if it keeps changing? And how are they any more local pure than the Snows that were created by breeding the Morongo anery into the Whitewater amel when Whitewater and Morongo are connected and have no natural barriers? I have seen posters chastise the breeders of the Morongo/Whitewater Snows, while bowing down to others that seem to give locality information that is vague at best and that also seems to change whenever it is convenient. It makes no sense to me at all. What is even funnier is that people are concerned about local and are willing to streach the truth about local in regard to a designer snake in which the goal is to remove all color and pattern in the first place. What exactly is the point with that?
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James Wilson

Pacific Coast Herpetological

www.pacificcoastherpetological.com

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