are blood boa's a species of snake? or just a color morph of another kind of snake?

[xBurntBytheSunx]

just curious, i can't find anything about them as a species on the web, and i figured they were just some other kind of boa, but i don't know what type

 

[equuskat]

It's a Blood Python, not boa.

 

[xBurntBytheSunx]

http://market.kingsnake.com/detail.php?cat=8&de=701928

 

[Aztek]

It's a morph.
It's in a book I have.

 

[ThomasH]

It's a color morph of the Boa Constrictor. I'm not sure of the subspecies though. Most likely imperator.
TBH

 

[skippy]

you'd be better off spending $50-200 on a normal to sunglow boa if that's what you want. 2 grand seems a little steep for a first boa

 

[xBurntBytheSunx]

i'm not thinking of buying one atm, just curious. i'm not going to be buying any critters for a while, just looking at different species, and asking questions

 

[skippy]

it usually doesn't hurt to ask questions

 

[aracnophiliac]

it usually doesn't hurt to ask questions

LMAO!!!!!!

 

[skippy]

i've seen a few ?s go south here before so i had to add the qualifier

 

[Beardo]

It's a Blood Python, not boa.

Epic fail.

 

[skippy]

she hadn't seen the pic yet, it's an understandable mistake

 

[Beardo]

No pics have been posted.

I don't need to see a pic to know there are both Pythons and Boas w/the surname "Blood."

 

[skippy]

ok then captain sematics, the link then

i figured the same: noob got python and boa mixed up. after all, blood python is a species and blood boa is a morph... species just seems to take first place in my brain

 

[Beardo]

The link doesn't work, captain interwebz.

 

[equuskat]

Being that someone recently posted a thread called "New Blood" and people often refer to Blood pythons as simply "bloods", which is an easy way to cause this mixup - without a pic, it is easy to mistake this, especially, if I am thinking of species, and not a color morph that is referred to as just "Blood Boa".

 

[skippy]

yeah, i noticed it didn't work after i posted i guess teh internets just hates me

it did work at one time though... promise:}

 

[xBurntBytheSunx]

maybe this link will work

http://market.kingsnake.com/detail.php?cat=8&de=676812

i guess the patterns on its tail make it look like some kind of RTB morph.

when i first saw one the picture was so red i thought it was a separate species of snake entirely

 

[skippy]

yeah, they kinda lead you to believe it's a species rather than a morph but with that price tag they probably figure only serious hobbyists are going to be interested and will therefore know what it is:}

i like constrictors but i don't keep up on all the morphs out there... there's just too many! same with leopard geckos...

 

[Beardo]

Blood Boas are a morph of a Central American Boa subspecies.