genetics question

[Lori P]

This pretty girl is on kingsnake...



Love that green too!

Uh oh... have we hijacked this thread?!

[adamanteus]

Isn't that Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus? Yeah, everyone should have one of those!

[Serpentine99]

yea...big difference!!!!! check out Scott Felzer's website...nice pic of an anery red sider.

sorry should have been more specific, this is the colorless red-sided photo i was talking about, now that i look at it it looks more like a radix, but wouldn't a radix still be cheaper than buying this red-sided morph?
PS: Don, great lookin snake, that one is definetly worth paying the extra bucks for.

[Stefan-A]

Isn't that Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus? Yeah, everyone should have one of those!

It used to be. Trimeresurus got chopped up. In 2004, I believe.

[adamanteus]

Trimeresurus got chopped up.

It did? I really need to keep up to speed with taxonomic changes. So what is T. purpureomaculatus called now? Have they messed with T. popeorum and T. albolabris too?

[Stefan-A]

Cryptelytrops, at least for albolabris and purpureomaculatus. I don't know about the rest.

edit: it seems that popeorum got its own genus, Popeia.

[adamanteus]

They did the same to Bothrops without telling me! The arboreal species are now Bothriopsis or Bothriechis.

[Anthon]

Hi I have a 100% het axanthic radix and lately I've been noticed that her stomach and side-stripes have became very greenish. Is this because of her hidden genes or is this typical even with normal radix?

[jeanette]

I don't think that cornsnakes have the same morphs and stuff as thamnophis.

thanks for the afford tho!

you can get a lot of colour morphs in corn snakes and breeders are always trying to come up with something new, i for one have never been interested in breeding them but ive seen some beautiful examples

[adamanteus]

My opinion.... man-made morphs are poo. No matter how hard we try, or how clever we think we are, we will never match the beauty of nature.